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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The number and/or size of a species that a person can legally have at any one time. Applies to commercial and recreational fishermen. A possession limit generally does not apply to the wholesale market level and beyond.
Industry:Fishing
Light level modifier of the deep epipelagic ocean ecosystem, and turbid regions of all other waters; areas never reached by natural light.
Industry:Fishing
Federal agency within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and responsible for overseeing fisheries science and regulation of the fisheries.
Industry:Fishing
In the short-term, fishing capacity that exceeds the capacity required to capture and handle the allowable catch. In the long-term, fishing capacity that exceeds the level required to ensuring the sustainability of the stock and the fishery at the desired level. Fishing capacity in excess of what is required to reach the agreed catch or effort objectives materialized by agreed target reference points (e.g. MSY, F0. 1, MEY, etc. ).
Industry:Fishing
Submerged geoform consisting of a vent of hot, mineral-rich water on the ocean floor, generally located on or near spreading oceanic ridges or on the continental margins of subduction trenches.
Industry:Fishing
The catch (in numbers) taken from a fish stock when it is in equilibrium with fishing of a given intensity, and (apart from the effects of environmental variation) its abundance is not changing from one year to the next.
Industry:Fishing
Portion of rainfall, melted snow, or irrigation water that flows across the ground's surface and is eventually returned to streams. Runoff can pick up pollutants from air or land and carry them to receiving waters.
Industry:Fishing
Generic name for methods of back-calculating stock sizes, recruitment levels, and fishing mortality for different ages/years using catch-at-age data. A statistical criterion may be used in addition to fit indices of abundance.
Industry:Fishing
Specifies that permits may not be registered for use with vessels more than 5 feet longer (in overall length) than the length endorsed on the permit.
Industry:Fishing
Means sometimes the amount of catch per unit time and sometimes the catch per unit effort.
Industry:Fishing
