Fisheries and aquaculture


Exclusive fishing zone

Updated on 13/07/2018
Définition
Sens technique
Area, 12 nautical miles wide from the baseline, in which vessels of the riparian country are basically the only ones having the right to fish.
Source
According to Ifremer

Fishing effort unit

Updated on 19/06/2018
Définition
Sens commun
Fishing operation or set of operations of a fishing vessel for a given time (hours of trawling, number of trap/pot hauls per day, etc).
Source
According to Ifremer

Overfishing

Updated on 04/07/2018
Définition
Sens commun
Action of fishing too much of the natural production of a particular marine product.
Source
According to Ifremer

Fishery

Updated on 19/06/2018
Définition
Sens technique
Designates a fraction, one or more stocks in interaction with one or more fleets practicing one or more fishing activities.
Source
According to Ifremer

Deep Sea Fishing

Updated on 19/06/2018
Définition
Sens commun
Fishing activity carried out beyond a 400 m depth.
Source
According to CIEM

Industrial fishing

Updated on 19/06/2018
Définition
Sens commun
Fishing activity whose catches are processed into flour (for the breeding of pigs and poultry mainly) but also into oil and other by-products.
Source
According to Ifremer

Sport fishing

Updated on 13/07/2018
Définition
Sens technique
Fishing whose product is intended for exclusive consumption by the fisherman and his family and cannot be peddled, exhibited or sold. Sport fishing regroups boat fishing (fishing from a boat, also called recreational or pleasure fishing, - which also includes big-game fishing also called offshore sport fishing), hand fishing, shore fishing, and finally underwater fishing. It is practiced either from ships or boats other than those having a permit and a crew for fishing, or by swimming or diving, or walking on the public maritime domain and on the part of rivers or channels where the water is salty. [...] For sport fishing, the use of any breathing equipment, whether self-contained or not, which allows a person to breath underwater without returning to the surface, is prohibited. [...] Sport fishing can be prohibited either for some protected species, or depending on the size of commercial species, on the fishing methods used, on fishing areas and seasons, on fishing bans and stoppages
Source
According to Bruno Drouot (economist)

Hand fishing

Updated on 13/07/2018
Définition
Sens commun
It is an activity practiced along the shore for gathering fish without using a boat. Hand fishing can be either a recreational activity (we also speak of "sport fishing") or a professional activity (which mainly concerns bivalves).
Source
According to Ifremer

Fossorial

Updated on 04/07/2018
Définition
Sens commun
Describes a marine organism that lives and moves in the sediment, either for protection or for finding food.
Source
According to Ifremer