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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The fishing mortality rate that reduces the spawning stock biomass per recruit (SSB/R) to 10 % of the amount present in the absence of fishing.
Industry:Fishing
Partially or permanently flooded, soft bottom flat that is vegetated by vascular plants.
Industry:Fishing
In the context of the National Standard Guidelines, generation time is a measure of the time required for a female to produce a reproductively-active female offspring for use in setting maximum allowable rebuilding time periods.
Industry:Fishing
Of or relating to a native species or population occurring under highly restricted conditions due to the presence of a unique environmental factor that limits its distribution.
Industry:Fishing
To the extent practicable, an individual stock of fish shall be managed as a unit throughout its range, and interrelated stocks of fish shall be managed as a unit or in close coordination.
Industry:Fishing
The non-homogeneous nature of habitats or spatial distributions of organisms, often ignored in simple models.
Industry:Fishing
Patches in which birth rates are higher than death rates and emigration rates are higher than immigration rates, as applied to equilibrium populations. A more general definition is a compartment that, over a large period of time (e.g. several generations), shows no net change in population size, but nonetheless is a net exporter of individuals.
Industry:Fishing
Requires that "conservation and management measures shall, where practicable, consider efficiency in the utilization of fishery resources; except that no such measure shall have economic allocation as its sole purpose".
Industry:Fishing
Marine species whose life cycle includes lengthy migrations, usually through the exclusive economic zones of two or more countries as well as into international waters. This term usually is used to denote tuna and tuna-like species, sharks, swordfish, and billfish.
Industry:Fishing
