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Glossary of Terms
ACFM
Advisory Committee on Fishery Management (ICES).
Benthos
Organisms living on or in the sea bottom.
Biomass
Fish stocks expressed as a weight.
Blackfish
Illegally landed over quota fish.
By-catch
Species caught incidental to the main target species.
Discards
Small or over quota fish thrown thrown back into the sea (usually
dead).
DG XIV
European Directorate for Fisheries Management.
ECOPATH
Food web computer model.
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
ICES
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
MAGP
European Union Multi-Annual Guidance Program.
MBAL
Minimum Biologically Acceptable Spawning Stock Level.
MSVPA
Multi Species Virtual Population Analysis.
Plankton
Small organisms carried in the water (Phyto/Zooplankton)
Pout Box
Area of the North Sea where fishing for Norway Pout is illegal.
Pre-recruit
Juvenile before joining the parent spawning stock.
Recruitment
When fish reach maturity and enter the parent spawning stock.
SSB
Spawning Stock Biomass (of mature fish).
S-R curve
Stock recruitment curve.
TAC
Total Allowable Catch.
Trophic trickle Top-down effect between trophic levels.
TSB
Total Stock Biomass (mature fish plus pre-recruits).
Appendix 1
ICES Area IV a b c.
Data used in analysis for periods 1977-86 and 1987-94.
Sources: ICES CM 1996/Assess:6, ICES CM 1996/Assess:3, ICES CM 1992/Assess:
16 and ICES CM 1994/Assess:9, ICES CM 1991/Assess:7, ICES Cooperative
Research Report (1995) 214.
R = directed roundfish; D = discards; FR = flatfish with roundfish bycatch ();
MnI = minor industrial; MjI = major industrial with bycatch ().
O = overexploited; C = close to safe; S = at safe limit; U = unknown.
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CFP
Common Fisheries Policy (of the European Union).