fish stocks
Ocean wildlife reserves
Fish stocks are the populations of particular fish species in a given body of water, assessed for sustainability and commercial harvesting.
Fisheries managers track fish stocks to prevent overfishing: Atlantic cod stocks have collapsed, The salmon stocks are recovering.
The term treats fish as a renewable resource to be monitored and managed.
- quota systemLimit on numbers admitted
- codCold-water food fish
- marineRelating to the sea
- wild catchImprobable reception in sports
- seafood industryBusiness of harvesting marine life
depletion · spawning grounds · breeding season · bottom trawling · carcasses · net zero · overexploitation · marine reserves · habitat restoration · shoal · food chain · migratory patterns · spawning · catch · broth · simmering · nets · harvest
- ocean resourcesseafood, fisheries, shellfish, kelp, crabs
- island resourcescoconuts, coral reefs, fresh water, palm trees, copra
- fisheries sciencebiomass, abundance, quota, sustainable yield, mortality
- Marineoceans, fisheries, marine life, marine mammals, seafood
- marine ecosystemsphytoplankton, oceans, zooplankton, marine life, krill
- marine resourcesfisheries, seafood, shellfish, aquaculture, ocean resources