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Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

natural mortality  

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  • Information Natural mortality is deaths of fish from all causes except fishing (e.g. ageing, predation , cannibalism, disease and perhaps increasingly pollution). It is often expressed as a rate that indicates the percentage of fish dying in a year; for example a natural mortality rate of 0.2 implies that approximately 20% of the population will die in a year from causes other than fishing.

    Created: 7/3/20

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    Created: 2019-09-04T12:02:37

    natural mortality coefficient (en)

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