Fisheries definition

Fisheries includes aquaculture and refers to either marine or freshwater fish, crustaceans, and molluscs (e.g. bivalves, gastropods and cephalopods).
Fisheries means one or more stocks of fish, which can be treated as a unit for the purposes of conservation, development and management, taking into account geographical, scientific, technical, customary, recreational, economical and other relevant characteristics;
Fisheries means fishing operations, aquaculture, the caretaking of aquatic animals, or aquatic animal processing, including any operation in support of a fishing operation.

Examples of Fisheries in a sentence

  • An investor who has been granted a fishery on application under section 6 shall obtain a licence and register at the Department of Fisheries.

  • For fishing of marine fish, prawn, and other aquatic organism, different treatment is given to Myanmar citizens according to the provisions of the Myanma Marine Fisheries Law (1990).

  • Such an investor shall initially discuss with the Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Livestock and Fishery.

  • Sub-Sector: Fishing of marine fish, prawns and other aquatic organisms Industry Classification: ISIC 0500 Level of Government: Central Type of Obligation: National Treatment Description of Measure: If any investor desires to engage in a fishery in the exclusive economic zone, he shall apply to the Department of Fisheries in the prescribed form.

  • For example, if the project causes take of a species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), such take will be unlawful under the ESA absent a permit or other form of authorization from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or National Marine Fisheries Service.


More Definitions of Fisheries

Fisheries means the set of biological species treated unitarily for management, conservation, and economic exploitation purposes;
Fisheries means the living aquatic resources of the internal waters, the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone and any other waters over which the Republic claims jurisdiction;‌‌‌
Fisheries shall be inserted after "agriculture", the words "and research" shall be replaced by "research and technological development and space", and the words ", since animals are sentient beings," shall be inserted after "Member States shall".
Fisheries comprises all activities related to fish, including aquaculture. "Fishery products" means all aquatic animals, plants and products derived therefrom. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora adopted in Washington in 1973, as amended, must be respected. Cetacean species which are not covered by the said Convention shall not be included within the services provided by EUROFISH. "Host State" means the State in which the seat of EUROFISH is situated. "Marketing information" means data and other information on distribution, transport and sale on local and international markets, on marketing opportunities and on the overall process of product development and promotion including advertising, public relations and other services.
Fisheries means all species of fish and shellfish commonly or regularly originating or harvested commercially or for sport in Lake Sammamish and its tributary freshwater bodies, together with the aquatic plants and animals and habitat needed for continued propagation and growth of such species.
Fisheries means fishing, fish farming related to the conservation, development, propagation, protection, exploitation, proceeding, value adding like activities of fishing and fish products connected with education and research and it includes all sectors comprising Biology, Environmental Science, Technology, Economics, Social Science;
Fisheries means the Fisheries Department of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.