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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
In stock assessment modeling, the process of testing the sensitivity of model results in relation to errors and uncertainties in the input parameters. For example, a virtual population analysis (VPA) might be used to determine the fishing mortality rates over several years. The results might be conditioned on an assumed annual natural mortality rate (M) of 0. 2. The sensitivity of this assumption might be examined by redoing the VPA based upon a different M, perhaps M=0. 15 to 0. 3. From the sensitivity analysis one can determine the importance of particular parameters to the overall scientific advice.
Industry:Fishing
The introduction by man, directly or indirectly, of substances or energy into the marine environment (including estuaries) resulting in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources, hazards to human health, hindrance to marine activities including fishing, impairment of quality for use of seawater, and reduction of amenities.
Industry:Fishing
The probability, based on statistics, that a number will be between an upper and lower limit.
Industry:Fishing
The most people are willing to pay to use a given quantity of a good or service; or, the smallest amount people are willing to accept to forego the use of a given quantity of a good or service.
Industry:Fishing
The maximum number of individuals, not including natural mortalities, that may be removed from a marine mammal stock while allowing that stock to reach or maintain its optimum sustainable population.
Industry:Fishing
The buildup over time, within animal tissues, of substance (e.g. heavy metals) that cannot be excreted by an organism.
Industry:Fishing
Institution responsible for fisheries management, including the formulation of the rules that govern fishing activities. The fishery management organization, and its subsidiary bodies, may also be responsible for all ancillary services, such as the collection of information, its analysis, stock assessment, monitoring, control and surveillance, consultation with interested parties, application and/or determination of the rules of access to the fishery, and resource allocation. Also called: fishery management arrangement.
Industry:Fishing
Things that do not change over time. In fishery science, refers usually to a parameter or life history character-istic that does not change over time. The concept is closely related to that of equilibrium, although it is possible to have one without the other. For example, yield-per-recruit can be stationary (constant) if the fishing and natural mortality, exploitation pattern, and growth remain stationary, but the overall yield can vary over time if the number of recruits varies.
Industry:Fishing
Freedom from hunger. The capability to produce an adequate amount of food for all consumers at affordable prices.
Industry:Fishing
Submerged earthform at depths >200 meters consisting of a flat-topped seamount with a cap of the carbonate remains of a drowned atoll.
Industry:Fishing
