Marine organism definition

Marine organism means any plant or animal, living or non-living, including fish, which spends most of its life cycle in the ocean;
Marine organism. ' means any organism in the Convention Area that belongs to any species of living organisms that are found in the Convention Area:
Marine organism means an organism, including plants and diadromous species, that has a natural portion of its life cycle that is dependent upon marine or estuarine waters,

Examples of Marine organism in a sentence

  • Marine organism" means an animal or plant that inhabits intertidal zones or waters below head of tide.

  • Marine organism collections originally focused in the Caribbean and Australasia, but, in 1992, were expanded to the Central and Southern Pacific and to the Indian Ocean (off East and Southern Africa) through a contract with the Coral Reef Research Foundation, which is based in Palau in Micronesia.

  • Marine organism tolerance is a critical point regarding effluent environmental impacts.

  • Marine organism (1-100 mg As/kg wet weight) (Cullen & Reimer, 1989; Francesconi & Edmonds, 1997)Terrestrial environment (0.02 mg As/kg wet weight) (Kuehnelt & Goessler, 2003).


More Definitions of Marine organism

Marine organism means an organism, including anadromous and catadromous organisms and plants, that has a natural portion of its life cycle that is dependent upon marine or estuarine waters, but excluding striped bass (Morone saxatilis), American eels (Anguila rostrata), non-living shells, marine reptiles, marine mammals, and birds.
Marine organism means any animal, plant or other life that inhabits waters below head of tide.

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