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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
1. Defining a habitat or organism found on the sea bottom; 2. Of or pertaining to the seafloor (or bottom) of a water body.
Industry:Fishing
Animali senza spina dorsale. Come termine nella gestione della pesca si riferisce a crostacei, comprese aragoste, vongole, gamberetti, ostriche, granchi e ricci di mare.
Industry:Fishing
Equal to rate of growth plus rate of recruitment less rate of natural mortality-all in terms of weight and on an instantaneous basis. In a "balanced" or equilibrium fishery, this increment replaces what is removed by fishing, and rate of surplus production is numerically equal to rate of fishing. Also called instantaneous rate of natural increase.
Industry:Fishing
A vessel owned or chartered by, and controlled by, a government agency, a university (or other educational institution accredited by a recognized national or international accreditation body), an international treaty organization, or a scientific institution. The vessel must have scientific research as its exclusive mission during the scientific cruise in question and its operations must be conducted in accordance with a scientific research plan.
Industry:Fishing
Commercial fishing vessels are classified according to their gross registered tons (GRT) of displacement. Vessels displacing less than 5 GRT are not routinely monitored, and are referred to as undertonnage.
Industry:Fishing
A breakdown of the number of fish of various sizes in a sample or catch, most often shown on a chart; the sizes can be in length or weight.
Industry:Fishing
A geographically defined space in the marine environment where special restrictions are applied to protect some aspect of the marine ecosystem including plants, animals, and natural habitats.
Industry:Fishing
A gear allowing fishers to capture few (if any) species other than the target species.
Industry:Fishing
A term that indicates a resource owned by the public. It can be fish in public waters, trees on public land, or the air. The government regulates the use of a common property resource to ensure its future benefits.
Industry:Fishing
1. Where system components are affected by random variability. For example, when fishery stock projections are elaborated, future recruitments are projected with a stochastic component (i.e. the values introduced in the projection randomly vary from year to year); 2. A stochastic model is a model whose behavior is not fully specified by its form and parameters, but which contains an allowance for unexplained effects represented by random variables.
Industry:Fishing
