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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found at Glossary of fishery terms, Glossary of underwater diving terminology, Glossary of rowing terms, and Glossary of meteorology. This glossary is split...
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found at Glossary of fishery terms, Glossary of underwater diving terminology, Glossary of rowing terms, and Glossary of meteorology. This glossary is split...
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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...
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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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Brexit glossary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In the wake of the referendum held in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2016, many new pieces of Brexit-related...
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Fisheries science is the academic discipline of managing and understanding fisheries. It is a multidisciplinary science, which draws on the disciplines...
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Lobster fishing (redirect from Lobster fishery)
then cannot escape. Traps are also used in some spiny lobster fisheries, such as the fishery for the California spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus, in...
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Demersal fish (redirect from Demersal fishery)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Fish measurement (category Fisheries science)
measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology....
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Pelagic fish (section Pelagic fisheries)
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...
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Shoaling and schooling (redirect from School of fish)
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...
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The goal of fisheries management is to produce sustainable biological, environmental and socioeconomic benefits from renewable aquatic resources. Wild...
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Humboldt Current (category Fisheries science)
jack mackerel. The system's high productivity supports other important fishery resources as well as marine mammals (eared seals and cetaceans) and seabirds...
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Dead zone (ecology) (redirect from Economic impact of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone)
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...
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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...
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impact of fishing includes issues such as the availability of fish, overfishing, fisheries, and fisheries management; as well as the impact of industrial...
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These effects vary in the context of each fishery. Climate change is modifying fish distributions and the productivity of marine and freshwater species....
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original (PDF) on April 25, 2011. "Fishing effort". Glossary of Statistical Terms. Review of Fisheries in OECD Countries, 1998. 5 March 2003. Retrieved 21...
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Marine Stewardship Council (redirect from MSC Fisheries Standard)
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...
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Shifting baseline (category Fisheries science)
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...
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Shark finning (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2022)
claim that shark fishing or bycatch (the unintentional capture of species by other fisheries) is the reason for the decline in some species' populations...
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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...
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Bycatch (category Environmental impact of fishing)
accounted directly by the retained catch of target species". Bycatch contributes to fishery decline and is a mechanism of overfishing for unintentional catch...
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Whaling (redirect from Whale-Fishery)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Exclusive economic zone (redirect from Exclusive economic zone of islands)
(Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone) in the Adriatic Sea caused friction with Italy and Slovenia, and caused problems during the accession of Croatia to...
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