This is a glossary of terms used in fisheries, fisheries management and fisheries science. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U W Y Abundance...

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Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place...

The shrimp fishery is a major global industry, with more than 3.4 million tons caught per year, chiefly in Asia. Rates of bycatch are unusually high for...

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Garcia SM (1996) "Chronicles of Marine Fishery Landings (1950-1994): Trend Analysis and Fisheries Potential" FAO: Fisheries technical paper 359. Rome. ISBN 92-5-103899-6...

then cannot escape. Traps are also used in some spiny lobster fisheries, such as the fishery for the California spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus, in...

Fisheries science is the academic discipline of managing and understanding fisheries. It is a multidisciplinary science, which draws on the disciplines...

Crab fisheries are fisheries which capture or farm crabs. True crabs make up 20% of all crustaceans caught and farmed worldwide, with about 1.4 million...

Sligo in Ireland to draw salmon into a river that had not supported a fishery. In 1880, the first fish ladder was built in Rhode Island, United States...

support many of the world's main fisheries. If the upwelling fails, then fisheries in the area fail. In the 1960s the Peruvian anchoveta fishery was the world's...

measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology....

jack mackerel. The system's high productivity supports other important fishery resources as well as marine mammals (eared seals and cetaceans) and seabirds...

The krill fishery is the commercial fishery of krill, small shrimp-like marine animals that live in the oceans world-wide. The present estimate for the...

usage, the terms are sometimes used rather loosely. About one quarter of fish species shoal all their lives, and about one half shoal for part of their lives...

The goal of fisheries management is to produce sustainable biological, environmental and socioeconomic benefits from renewable aquatic resources. Wild...

Gulf of Mexico, and East China Sea, all of which are major fishery areas. Dead zones can be classified by type, and are identified by the length of their...

These effects vary in the context of each fishery. Climate change is modifying fish distributions and the productivity of marine and freshwater species....

original (PDF) on April 25, 2011. "Fishing effort". Glossary of Statistical Terms. Review of Fisheries in OECD Countries, 1998. 5 March 2003. Retrieved 21...

claim that shark fishing or bycatch (the unintentional capture of species by other fisheries) is the reason for the decline in some species' populations...

depleted fisheries were evaluated by experts who used the state of the fishery at the start of their careers as the baseline, rather than the fishery in its...

impact of fishing includes issues such as the availability of fish, overfishing, fisheries, and fisheries management; as well as the impact of industrial...

observers believe IUU occurs in most fisheries, and accounts for up to 30% of total catches in some important fisheries. Illegal fishing takes place when...

accounted directly by the retained catch of target species". Bycatch contributes to fishery decline and is a mechanism of overfishing for unintentional catch...

fishing. Fisheries that wish to demonstrate they are well-managed and sustainable compared to the MSC's standards are assessed by a team of Conformity...

Cod fisheries are fisheries for cod. Cod is the common name for fish of the genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae, and this article is confined...

of the United Kingdom and intermittently until the middle of the 20th century. The trade was broadly divided into two branches. The northern fishery involved...

of a sustainable fishery is that it is one that is harvested at a sustainable rate, where the fish population does not decline over time because of fishing...

A fishery is an area with an associated fish or aquatic population which is harvested for its commercial value. Fisheries can be wild or farmed. Most...