Top 10 Misunderstood Terms in Fisheries Management
Posted on | October 11, 2009 | 3 Comments
Fishery/fisheries: The industry or industries dedicated to the catching, processing, and selling of fish, shellfish, or other aquatic animals; not a hatchery.
Management/Managers: Taking action to regulate the behavior of fishermen and therefore affect a fish population to achieve certain objectives, such as maximizing the harvest of fish while allowing the population to replenish itself. Management action includes, for example, setting fishery regulations such as catch quotas or closed seasons. Managers are the decision makers who set the objectives and set regulations.
Fishery Management Plan: A plan to achieve specific management goals for a fishery. The document contains data, analyses, and tools used to manage a fishery.
Fish Stocks: Populations or subpopulations of a fish species that show the same life history characteristics and are subject to similar regulations ; not simmering fish bones and onions for 30 minutes.
Overfished/depleted: A situation where a fish stock is harvested or fished below a point where it can sustain itself at current fishing levels.
Bycatch: Any unintended fish caught in a fishery. The unintended fish could be the right species but wrong size or it could be a non-target species. Most bycatch is released at sea dead or injured.
Fish Habitat: Areas of the ocean that are important to the growth and survival of a fish species.
Aquaculture: Also known as fish farming. Cultivating fish or shellfish species in a controlled environment. It can be carried out inland, along the shore, and in the open ocean.
Ecosystem: A complex system of interactions between living organisms and their non-living environment.
Sustainable: Fishing and aquaculture activities can continue over the long-term without endangering the ecosystem.
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November 2nd, 2009 @ 4:34 AM
the term management dose not just mean we manage fish it also means how we manage fisherman’s behavior,so we are managing fisherman as well as fish populations.
when you start to see how management works and understand it you can the reasons for the use of all the things that are used in the management process like science and public input
so come to a meeting and listen for a while and try to under stand the process
November 9th, 2009 @ 4:12 PM
Gary, thanks for your insight! I added information to the ‘management’ definition above capture your thoughts.
November 12th, 2009 @ 4:14 AM
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