- Industrie: Government
- Number of terms: 30456
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Physical waste is product that is caught but does not have market value. It is a byproduct of the production process that is not utilized.
Industry:Fishing
Towed net consisting of a cone-shaped body closed by a bag or codend and extended at the opening by wings. It can be towed by one or two boats and, according to the type, used on the bottom or in midwater (pelagic). In certain cases, as in trawling for shrimp or flatfish, the trawler can be specially rigged with outriggers to tow up to four trawls at the same time (double rigging).
Industry:Fishing
The strategy adopted by the management authority to reach established management goals. In addition to the objectives, it includes choices regarding all or some of the following: access rights and allocation of resources to stakeholders, controls on inputs (e.g. fishing capacity, gear regulations), outputs (e.g. quotas, minimum size at landing), and fishing operations (e.g. calendar, closed areas, and seasons).
Industry:Fishing
The massive deposition of calcium carbonate by coral polyps of colonial stony corals and other organisms producing large living hard structures. Coral reefs can range in size from a few feet to thousands of miles.
Industry:Fishing
Passed by Congress in 1969, NEPA requires Federal agencies to consider the environment when making decisions regarding their programs. Section 102(2)(C) requires Federal agencies to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) before taking major Federal actions that may significantly affect the quality of the human environment. The EIS includes the environmental impact of the proposed action, any adverse environmental effects which cannot be avoided should the proposed action be implemented, alternatives to the proposed action, the relationship between local short-term uses of the environment and long-term productivity, and any irreversible commitments of resources which would be involved in the proposed action should it be implemented.
Industry:Fishing
Non-photosynthetic, heterotrophic planktonic organsisms, including protists, small animals, and larvae, which exist within the water column.
Industry:Fishing
Those waters in the region between the coastal land margin and the 30-meter depth contour and where the salinity is substantially marine (>30 practical salinity units (PSU) throughout the year. )
Industry:Fishing
One approach used to assign ages to fish, given length measurements. Used to convert catch-at-size data into catch-at-age data. The keys specify the probability that fish of a given size belong to one of several age groups.
Industry:Fishing
Used as a collective term, includes mollusks, crustaceans and any aquatic animal which is harvested.
Industry:Fishing
When fishing and natural mortality act concurrently, the natural logarithm of the survival rate (with sign changed) for deaths due to either natural causes (instantaneous rate of natural mortality, M) or due to fishing mortality (instantaneous rate of fishing mortality, F). The instantaneous rate of total mortality, Z, is the sum of these two rates: Z = F + M, also called the coefficient of decrease.
Industry:Fishing
