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Fisheries management

  • Glossary item | Last updated: 26 Mar 2024

The integrated process of information gathering, analysis, planning, decision making, allocation of resources and formulation and enforcement of fishery regulations by which the fisheries management authority controls the present and future behaviours of the interested parties in the fishery, in order to ensure the continued productivity of the living resources.

FAOTERM, Fisheries Glossary, accessed 8 January 2024

Source category: International Organisation

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