A designated zone or area in which fishing activities are restricted or prohibited to conserve and protect fish stocks, ecosystems, and the overall marine environment. It is a management tool employed by governments and conservation organizations to safeguard vulnerable or threatened fish populations, maintain biodiversity, and sustainably manage fisheries resources. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
A situation which occurs when bacteria end up in a location where they are not supposed to be. It is often used to refer to contamination of food by bacteria which can cause disease, but bacterial contamination can also occur in other settings. (What is Bacterial Contamination? (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-bacterial-contamination.htm).)
A particle counter is used for monitoring and diagnosing particle contamination within specific clean media, including air, water and chemicals. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_counter)
The course of actions involved in maintaining a forest or stand, composed of intermingling trees that differ markedly in age. (Schwarz, Charles F.; Thor, Edward C.; Elsner, Gary H. 1976. Wildland planning glossary. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-13. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station)
A perennial plant from the mallow family, with purple flowers used as medicine and leaves used as a vegetable, that grows wild. (Translated from https://sozluk.gov.tr/)
The female part of a flower composed of one or more carpels and ordinarily differentiated into ovary, style and stigma. (https://www.nzflora.info/glossary.html)
Contagious equine metritis (CEM) is a contagious, acute venereal disease of horses and other equidae caused by Haemophilus equigenitalis. (http://www.fao.org/3/t0756e/T0756E07.htm)
Species delimitation is the process of determining which groups of individual organisms constitute different populations of a single species and which constitute different species. (Bruce Rannala and Ziheng Yang (2020). Species Delimitation. In Scornavacca, C., Delsuc, F., and Galtier, N., editors, Phylogenetics in the Genomic Era, chapter No. 5.5, pp. 5.5:1– 5.5:18. No commercial publisher | Authors open access book. The book is freely available at https://hal.inria.fr/PGE.)
Type of extensive culture of mussels, oysters, scallops and clams in which ongrowing occurs on the seabed. After an appropriate period of growth period, the shellfish are harvested by dredging. Method also used for the culture of seaweeds. (AQUALEX. Multilingual glossary of aquaculture terms, 1998)
Acoustic technique for determining depths or creating backscatter imagery in a wide swath of seafloor or lakebed centered below the instrument platform. (U.S. Geological Survey Thesaurus)
