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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The EEZ is the area that extends from the seaward boundaries of the coastal states (3 nautical miles (n. Mi. ) in most cases, the exceptions are Texas, Puerto Rico and the Gulf coast of Florida at 9 n. Mi. ) to 200 n. Mi. off the U. S. coast. Within this area the United States claims and exercises sovereign rights and exclusive fishery management authority over all fish and all continental shelf fishery resources.
Industry:Fishing
Relative abundance is an estimate of actual or absolute abundance; usually stated as some kind of index; for example, as bottom trawl survey stratified mean catch per tow.
Industry:Fishing
In a stock assessment (e.g. a virtual population analysis), refers to fishing mortality values in the last year for which data are available.
Industry:Fishing
Management instruments aimed at directly limiting fish catch or landings through total allowable catch (TAC) or quotas.
Industry:Fishing
Rights for the use of resources that can be defined by local custom, mutual agreements, or prescribed by other entities holding access rights. These rights may restrict the use of particular resources to specific levels of consumption or particular harvesting techniques.
Industry:Fishing
The body which makes the decisions on how the fishery is carried out, and is responsible for all ancillary services, such as statistics gathering, assessment, monitoring, control and surveillance, consultation with fishers and other users of the sea, and resource allocation or determining the conditions of access to the fishery.
Industry:Fishing
The ear bone of a fish. Otoliths have rings on them like the rings on a tree stump, and are used to find the age of the fish and its growth rate.
Industry:Fishing
Stocks of fish that migrate across international boundaries or, in the case of the United States, across the boundaries between states or fishery management council (FMC) areas of control.
Industry:Fishing
Snails and other mollusks (e.g. abalone, Queen conch, and cones) that typically possess a coiled dorsal shell and a ventral creeping foot.
Industry:Fishing
Refers to any species which is protected by either the Endangered Species Act (ESA) or the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), and which is under the jurisdiction of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). This includes all threatened, endangered, and candidate species, as well as all cetaceans and pinnipeds, excluding walruses.
Industry:Fishing
