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Created: 1981-01-26T00:00:00Z

Notation: 10031

commercial fisheries  

Definition

  • Information A commercial fishery is the sum (or range) of all commercial fishing activities on a given resource (e.g. a hake fishery or shrimp fishery). Activity of commercially 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.

    Created: 6/21/24

    Last modified: 6/21/24

     (en)

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Scope note

  • Such fisheries belong to one of two groups: one catching demersal (bottom-living) fish, e.g. cod, haddock, plaice, sole; the other catching pelagic (surface-living) fish, e.g. anchovy, tuna, herring. (en)

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