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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The Saltonstall-Kennedy Act allocates 30% of the collected duties for imported fishery products to technological, biological, marketing, and other research and services in order to promote the free flow of domestically produced fishery products and to develop markets for domestic fishery products.
Industry:Fishing
Producers operating at a small scale, used to distinguish from industrialized producers. In truth, the line separating small and large-scale producers is arbitrary. What is considered small scale in one country or region may be considered large scale in another.
Industry:Fishing
The number of individuals of a catch or catch sample in each length interval. The modal size is the length group with the higher number of individuals. Distributions may be uni- or bimodal but are more generally multimodal, reflecting multiple age-groups.
Industry:Fishing
Methods for stock assessment based on fishery-dependent data, such as catch and effort statistics and age structure of the catch.
Industry:Fishing
That part of a fish's or animal's habitat where the young develop and grow.
Industry:Fishing
The maximum expected age, on average, for a species, cohort, stock, or a population in the absence of fishing or human-induced mortality. Lifespan is inversely proportional to natural mortality. Often referred to as Tmax in stock assessment models. Different and smaller than the absolute maximum age.
Industry:Fishing
In the context of an environmental impact statement for annual fisheries management measures, alternatives are different suites of optimum yields and management actions that could be used to manage fisheries.
Industry:Fishing
Supporting ecosystem services are those services (e.g. primary production, oxygen production, soil formation) that are necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services (e.g. food, employment, recreation, erosion control, etc. ).
Industry:Fishing
Socially-defined agreements held by individuals or groups (either recognized by law or customary norms) on the rights of access and the rules for use of either a land area or associated resources such as individual trees, plant species, water, or animals.
Industry:Fishing
Large-scale water stream in the upper ocean that separates water masses; is driven by a combination of wind, temperature, geostrophic, or coriolis effects.
Industry:Fishing