total allowable catch

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total allowable catch [¦tōd·əl ə‚lau̇·ə·bəl ′kach]

(oceanography)

A fishery management approach to assign an annual quota that, if exceeded, will terminate the fishery for that year, the total allowable catch is set at a level to prevent a catch so large that the stock will be overfished.

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ABSTRACT The management section of California's recently adopted Abalone Recovery and Management Plan (ARMP) uses results of fishery independent transect surveys at eight index sites to regulate total allowable catch (TAC) for the recreational red abalone, Haliotis rufescens (Swainson), fishery.

Application of recent red abalone Haliotis rufescens surveys to ... by Kashiwada Jerry V.; Taniguchi Ian K. / Journal of Shellfish Research

118) Similar to this non-detriment finding, CCAMLR bases its annual total allowable catch (TAC) on an ecosystem and precautionary approach, which accounts for historical catches, uncertainties, and lack of information.

Alternative approaches to the CITES "non-detriment" finding for ... by Murphy, James B. / Environmental Law

Small fishing communities can band together and purchase a group quota of the total allowable catch of any given fish species.

Ocean rescue: can we head off a marine cataclysm? by Scheer, Roddy / E

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