Susceptibility. The inability of a plant variety to restrict the growth and development of a specified pest or pathogen.
Susceptibility. Susceptibility, understood as a measure of potential impact, in this case of the pelagic longline fishery, is expressed as the product of four conditional probabilities: availability (i.e. overlap of fishery effort with the distribution of the population/species), encounterability (i.e. the probability that a population/species could encounter fishing gear released within the geographic range of the species, in this case with the hooks baited), selectivity (probability that the fishing gear captures a population/species that encounters the gear; the hooks in this case) and post-capture mortality (Xxxxxx et al. 2010, Xxxxxx et al. 2011). In the current study, for species that consume waste, bait and/or are captured by the fishery, we estimated the susceptibility to incidental capture considering the availability, encounterability or access to bait and probability of remaining captured or selectivity, and the probability of post-capture mortality, considered to be 1. This is because birds captured in the hooks or tangled in the line during setting are found during the hauling with a probability of mortality of 1 (or very close to 1). The attributes considered were multiplied as suggested by Xxxxxx et al. (2011).
