Glossary of Fisheries Terms
All of the industry lingo explained in one place.
- Age at maturity
- Base case model
- Biomass
- Bycatch species
- Byproduct species
- Catch curve
- Catch per unit effort
- Catchability
- CPUE
- Decision Rules
- Depletion (stock depletion)
- Discard rate
- Discards
- Ecologically sustainable
- Effort
- Emigration
- Exploitation rate
- Fecundity
- Fish stock
- Fishery dependent data
- Fishery independent data
- Fishing mortality
- Goodness of fit
- Growth curve
- Growth overfishing
- Harvest strategy
- Hyperstability
- Immigration
- Indicator
- Length weight relationship
- Life cycle
- Limit reference point
- Management Strategy Evaluation
- Maximum Economic Yield
- Maximum Sustainable Yield
- Meta Rules
- MEY
- MSE
- MSY
- Natural mortality
- Overfished
- Overfishing is occurring
- Performance measure
- RBC
- Recommended biological catch
- Recruitment
- Recruitment overfishing
- Reference point
- Relative abundance
- Relative biomass
- Retention
- S/R relationships
- Selectivity
- Sensitivity testing
- Spawning stock biomass
- SSB
- Standardising catch per unit effor
- Steepness
- Stock assessment
- Stock recruitment relationships
- Subject to overfishing
- TAC
- TACC
- Target reference point
- Target species
- TEP interactions
- Threatened, Endangered and Protected Species Interaction
- Total allowable catch
- Total allowable commercial catch
- Total mortality
- Virgin Biomass
- Yield per recruit
- YPR
Directory
Resources and organisations about sustainable fishing.
Policies and Legislation
Fishery legislation resources.