Fish pastes and spreads are manufactured from by-products or from under-utilized species, for instance those fish which are generally too small for other purposes. They usually require mincing and/or blending with other ingredients such as salt, sauces, spices, fat, emulsifying agents and thickening agents. (Darian, Warne. Manual on fish canning. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No.285. Rome. FAO. 1988. 71p. https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/d6156227-da69-460e-b0dc-d2f24f24966a/content)
The practice of employing poisons for stupefying or killing fish. (Adapted from Hamlyn-Harris, R. 1916. "On Fish Poisoning and Poisons Employed among the Aborigines of Queensland. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/9935)
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Capture of fish or other aquatic animals by the use of poisons or stupefying agents
A food shortage typically refers to a temporary and localized situation where there is an insufficient supply of food in a specific area or community. Unlike food scarcity, which can be chronic and long-term, food shortages are often short-lived and caused by specific, immediate factors such as transportation disruptions, crop failures, price fluctuations, or sudden spikes in demand. (AGROVOC Team, 2023)
Any pond in which fish stock are held or cultured. (Anonymous (1998) AQUALEX. Multilingual glossary of aquaculture terms / Glossaire multilingue relatif aux termes utilisés en aquaculture. CD ROM, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. & Praxis Publ., UK.)
Antennaria dioica (mountain everlasting,stoloniferous pussytoes, catsfoot or cudweed) is a Eurasian and North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antennaria_dioica)
A sediment trap is a container deployed in the water column with the aim of providing a representative sample of the material settling through that water column before it passes to a greater depth and ultimately to the seabed or lake bottom. (White, J. The use of sediment traps in high-energy environments. Marine Geophysical Researches 12, 145–152 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00310569)
Any food or non-food items derived from fish or seafood. These products are obtained by processing and utilizing various parts of fish, including flesh, organs, and by-products. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
An interaction of interchangeable, specifically ordered abiotic and biotic factors to produce a gradual general deterioration, often ending in the death of trees. (FAO Language Resources Project, 2005; IUFRO, Vienna, 2005.)
Fish protein concentrate (FPC) is any stable proteinous product in which the protein is more concentrated relative to the original fish and manufactured for human consumption. (FAO. Term Portal. Fish Protein Concentrate, Torry Advisory Note No. 39, FAO/SIFAR, 2001. Accessed 21/2/2023. http://www.fao.org/faoterm/en/)
The term fish wastes are used to describe different categories of unwanted food fish, such as small-sized fish species, by-catches, as well as the byproducts of fisheries and aquaculture industries. (Olsen, R. L., Toppe, J., & Karunasagar, I. (2014). Challenges and realistic opportunities in the use of by-products from processing of fish and shellfish. Trends in Food Science
& Technology, 36(2), 144-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2014.01.007. Cited in Shahin, Sharif & Okomoda, Victor & Ma, Hongyu & Abdullah, Mhd. (2023). Sustainable alternative feed for aquaculture: state of the art and future perspective. PLANETARY SUSTAINABILITY. 1. 62-96. 10.46754/ps.2023.07.005.)
A fishery is an activity leading to the harvesting of fish, within the boundaries of a defined area. The fishery concept fundamentally gathers indication of human fishing activity, including from economic, management, biological/ environmental and technological viewpoints. (Concepts & Definitions - FIRMS, FAO, 2021 (http://firms.fao.org/firms/concepts/en).)
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The term “fishery” can refer to the sum of all fishing activities on a given resource, for example, a hake or shrimp fishery. It may also refer to the activities of a single type or style of fishing on a particular resource, for example a beach seine fishery or trawl fishery. It is the activity of catching fish, from one or more stocks of fish, that can be treated as a unit for purposes of conservation and management and that is identified on the basis of geographic, scientific, technical, recreational, social or economic characteristics, and/or method of catch.
A gender-neutral name for a person (male or female) participating in a fishing activity. An individual who takes part in fishing conducted from a fishing vessel, a floating or fixed platform, or from shore. Does not include fish processors or traders. (FAO (1998): Guidelines for the routine collection of capture fishery data. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap, 382: 113 p.)
Study of the biology of exploited populations of fishes and other aquatic organisms, and of exploitation and management techniques. (Johnson, R.K., B.J. Zahuranec, D. Boltovskoy and A.C. Pierrot-Bults. 2000. Glossary of Pelagic Biogeographic Terms. https://scor-int.org/Working_Groups/WG93_Glossary.pdf)
