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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
1. Marine fish farming (aquaculture). Raising of marine animals and plants in the ocean; 2. The raising of marine finfish or shellfish under some controls. Ponds, pens, tanks, or other containers may be used, and feed is often used. A hatchery is also mariculture but the fish are released before harvest size is reached.
Industry:Fishing
Advisory guidelines issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to provide comprehensive guidance for the development of fishery management plans and amendments that comply with the National Standards of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. These guidelines are found in Title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 600.
Industry:Fishing
A specified numerical harvest objective, the attainment (or expected attainment) of which causes closure of the fishery for that species or species group.
Industry:Fishing
Any activity, other than scientific research conducted by a scientific research vessel, that involves the catching, taking, or harvesting of fish; or any attempt to do so; or any activity that can reasonably be expected to result in the catching, taking, or harvesting of fish and any operations at sea in support of it.
Industry:Fishing
A report that provides a summary of the most recent biological condition of a stock of fish and the economic and social condition of the recreational fishermen, commercial fishermen, and seafood processors who use the fish. The report provides information to the fishery management councils (FMCs) for determining harvest levels.
Industry:Fishing
Describes how harvest is intended to be controlled by management in relation to the state of some indicator of stock status. For example, a harvest control rule can describe the various values of fishing mortality that will be aimed at for various values of the stock abundance. It formalizes and summarizes a management strategy. Constant catch and constant fishing mortality are two types of simple harvest control rules.
Industry:Fishing
1. A natural source of wealth and revenue. Biological resources include genetic resources, organisms or parts thereof, populations, or any other biotic component of ecosystems with actual or potential use of value for humanity. Fishery resources are those resources of value to fisheries; 2. Anything that has value; living and nonliving components of nature such as fish, oil, water, and air.
Industry:Fishing
A visual (not statistical) method; graphically shows the relationship between two factors (such as fish age and fish size).
Industry:Fishing
A graph of the progeny from an adult year-class at the time they reach a specified age (for example, the age at which half of the brood has become vulnerable to fishing), plotted against the abundance of the stock that produced them.
Industry:Fishing
