Terminology record for recruitment overfishing
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| Record No.: | 347/en/647 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2023-12-04 00:00:00 |
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | |
| SUBJECT FIELD | Fisheries |
| TERM | * Recruitment overfishing status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun |
| DEFINITION |
The rate of fishing above which the recruitment to the exploitable stock becomes significantly reduced. This is characterized by a greatly reduced spawning stock, a decreasing proportion of older fish in the catch, and generally very low recruitment year after year. Recruitment overfishing can lead to stock collapse. |
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
SCRS (2001) |



