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Fisheries Ecology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stock | population within a range that is assumed to be reproductivly isolated |
| Renewable resource | resource that can replenish itself |
| Fisheries managment | The goal of fisheries management is to produce sustainable biological, environmental and socioeconomic benefits |
| Potential yield | number of pounds of fish that a stock can yeild per year without being overexploited |
| Sustainable yield | number of fish that can be caught over several years without stressing the population |
| Tagging | moniter distribution of fish |
| Mark and recapture | tagging the fish and then recaputing some of them |
| Landing | catch made by fishing vessel |
| Commercial fishing | he activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit |
| Population dynamics | the portion of ecology that deals with the variation in time and space of population size and density for one or more species |
| Population overfishing | catching too many fish at once, so the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover. |
| Bycatch | other animals killed that were not supposed to be catched |
| Exclusive economic zone | EEZ is area of ocean controlled by costal nations |
| Drift net | entangle fish that get caught into them |
| Trawl net | net dragged along bottom of ocean |
| Aquaculture | farming of freshwater or marine organisms |
| Monoculture | raising one species |
| Polyculture | raising more than one species |
| Purse seine | large wall of netting deployed around an entire area or school of fish |
| NOAA | the website |
| Shellfish | animal with shell |
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