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This is a Glossary of common fisheries terms. It contains simplified definitions of legal, management, scientific and technical terms. The entries are contained on different pages which are organized alphabetically. An index of all entries is contained on this page: to view the index scroll down the page and click on the relevant link to jump to a particular entry. Alternatively, click on one of the letters below to jump to that page.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

           

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Absolute Recruitment Alien species
Abundance Index Anadromous Species
Access right Annual Mortality Rate
Actual Mortality Rate Aquaculture
Aerial survey Archipelagic State
 


 

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Baseline Biological Reference Points
Bay Biomass
Benthic Blue Whale Unit
Billfish Bottom Trawl
Biological Diversity Bycatch

 


 

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Catadromous species Conditional Fishing Mortality Rate
Catch  Conditional Natural Mortality Rate
Catch Curve Conservation Reference Points
Catch per Unit of Effort Contiguous Zone
Cetaceans Continental Shelf
Cohort Critical Size
Cohort Analysis Crustacean
Compensatory Growth  

 


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Danish Seines Dredges
Demersal Driftnets
Discards Dropouts

 


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Ecosystem Exclusive Economic Zone
Effectiveness of Fishing Exclusive Fishing Zone
Enclosed and Semi-Enclosed Seas Exploitation Pattern
Equilibrium Catch Exploitation Rate
Equilibrium Yield  

 


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F Fishing Mortality
Fmax Fishing Power
F0.1 Flag of convenience
Fishing Capacity Freedom of Fishing
Fishing Effort Freezer trawler

 


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Genuine Link Gillnet
Geographic information system Groundfish
Geographically disadvantaged State Growth of Overfishing
Ghost Fishing  

 


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High Grading High Seas
Highly Migratory Species  

 


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Incidental Catch Instantaneous Rate of Mortality
Individual Transferable Quota Instantaneous Rate of Natural Mortality 
Instantaneous Rate of Fishing Mortality Instantaneous Rate of Recruitment
Instantaneous Rate of Growth Instantaneous Rate of Surplus Production

 


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Jigging Joint venture

 


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Landed Catch Live-Bait Fishing
Large Marine Ecosystem Long-Line Fishing
Limit Reference Points Long-Term Potential Catch

 


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Management Reference Points Midwater Trawl
Marine Mammal Molluscs
Maximum Sustainable Yield Mortality Rates
Memorandum of Understanding  

 


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Natural Mortality Net Increase (or Decrease)
Neritic Nominal Catch

 


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Optimum Size Over (or Excess) Capacity
Optimum Sustainable Yield  

 


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Packwood-Magnuson Amendment Pots
Pelagic Precautionary Principle (or Approach)
Pelly Amendment Precautionary Reference Points
Pinnipeds Presential Sea
Pole-and-Line Fishing Production
Port State Control Purse-Seines

 


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Quota  

 


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Rate of Exploitation Reference Points
Rate of Fishing Reflagging
Rate of Removal Relative Abundance
Recruitment  

 


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Sample Stock
Seasonal Mortality Rate Straddling Stock
Sedentary Species Surplus Production
Seine Nets Surrounding Nets
Semi-Enclosed Sea Survival Rate
Spawning Stock Biomass Sustainable Yield
Spawning Stock Biomass per Recruit  

 


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Target Catch Traps
Target Reference Points Trawls
Territorial Sea Trolling
Total Allowable Catch Trophic Level
Trammel Net Turtle Excluder Devices
Transboundary Stock  

 


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Virtual Population Virtual Population Analysis

 


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Year Class Yield-per-Recruit

 


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