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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
When fishing and natural mortality act concurrently, F is equal to the instantaneous total mortality rate, multiplied by the ratio of fishing deaths to all deaths. Also called: rate of fishing; instantaneous rate of fishing.
Industry:Fishing
The rate at which each subsequent cohort or generation replaces the previous one.
Industry:Fishing
Subpopulations are defined as geographically or otherwise distinct groups in the population between which there is little exchange.
Industry:Fishing
The natural logarithm of the ratio of final weight to initial weight of a fish in a unit of time, usually a year. When applied collectively to all fish of a given age in a stock, the possibility of selective mortality must be considered.
Industry:Fishing
Program in western Alaska under which a percentage of the total allowable catch (TAC) of Bering Sea commercial fisheries is allocated to specific communities. Communities eligible for this program must be located within 50 miles of the Bering Sea coast, or on an island within the Bering Sea; meet criteria established by the State of Alaska; be a village certified by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; and consist of residents who conduct more than half of their current commercial or subsistence fishing in the Bering Sea or waters surrounding the Aleutian Islands. Currently 7. 5% of the TAC in the pollock, halibut, sablefish, crab, and groundfish fisheries is allocated to the CDQ program.
Industry:Fishing
General term for management schemes that reduce or restrict the number of participants in a fishery.
Industry:Fishing
The practice of putting artificially reared young fish into a sea, lake, or river. These are subsequently caught, preferably at a larger size.
Industry:Fishing
The equipment used for fishing (e.g. gillnet, hand line, harpoon, haul seine, long line, bottom and midwater trawls, purse seine, rod-and-reel, pots and traps). Each of these gears can have multiple configurations.
Industry:Fishing
Fishing mortality rate that results in x % equilibrium spawning potential ratio.
Industry:Fishing
The Secretary has responsibility for reviewing, approving, and implementing fishery management plans (FMPs).
Industry:Fishing
