Glossary

Welcome to the SEAwise Glossary. This page provides definitions for fisheries- and marine-related terms used in our reports and other communications which may be understood differently by different people, and so may benefit from clarification. Related words and phrases are also provided, which are relevant to the concept being defined but do not necessarily mean the same thing.

If you would like to suggest a term to add to the Glossary, please get in touch with us via info@seawiseproject.org.

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Benthic habitat
Biodiversity
Biomass (Stock & Spawning Stock)
Bycatch
Carbon footprint
Catch Per Unit Effort (CPUE)
Choke species
Climate change
Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)
Community diversity
Cultural heritage
Cultural services
Demersal fishery
Depredation
Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM)
Endangered, Threatened and Protected (ETP) species
Environmentally mediated Stock-Recruitment (S-R) Relationship (EMSRR)
Essential fish habitat
Eutrophication
Fish migration
Fisheries governance
Fisheries Restricted Areas (FRAs)
Fishing community
Fishing Effort
Food security
Food supply
Good Environmental Status (GES)
Gross Value Added (GVA)
Hydrodynamics
Income
Invasive species
Landing Obligation
Management measure
Management Strategy
Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) – add to existing Management Strategy term
Marine aggregate extraction
Marine litter
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)
Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY)
Mixed fishery
Multi Criteria Decision Making
Natural Mortality
New species
Offshore wind farm (OWF)
Overexploitation
Participatory governance
Pelagic fishery
Policy Instrument
Pretty Good Yield (PGY)
Productivity
Productivity
Productivity-Susceptibility Analysis (PSA)
RCP 4.5 (Moderate Climate Change)
RCP 8.5 (Extreme Climate Change)
Recruitment
Relative Benthic State (RBS)
Spatial distribution change
Transparent governance
Trophic interactions
Trophic level
Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME)

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