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Fishery resources
|  | (Hierarchy: Fisheries > Fisheries management > Fishery resources)
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| TERM | * Stock status: recommended
* fishery stock (noun)
status: accepted
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun |
| PLURAL | Stocks ;
Fishery stocks ;
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| ETYMOLOGY | Old English stoc(c) ‘trunk, block of wood, post’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stok and German Stock ‘stick’. The notion ‘store, fund’ (senses 1 to 5) arose in late Middle English and is of obscure origin, perhaps expressing “growth from a central stem” or “firm foundation”; Word from the native lexical stock; from Old English stocc, ‘tree trunk, large piece of wood’; from Germanic stukkaz, ‘tree trunk’ |
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010).
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019).
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| DEFINITION |
subpopulations of a particular species of aquatic resource, for which intrinsic parameters are traditionally regarded as the significant factors determining the stock's population dynamics, while extrinsic factors are traditionally ignored.
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| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Wikipedia
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