The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to fisheries:

Fishery – entity engaged in raising or harvesting fish which is determined by some authority to be a fishery.Fletcher, WJ; Chessonio, J; Fisher, M; Sainsbury KJ; Hundloe, T; Smith, ADM and Whitworth, B (2002) The "How To" guide for wild capture fisheries . National ESD reporting framework for Australian fisheries: FRDC Project 2000/145. Page 119–120. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a fishery is typically defined in terms of the "people involved, species or type of fish, area of water or seabed, method of fishing, class of boats, purpose of the activities or a combination of the foregoing features". The definition often includes a combination of fish and fishers in a region, the latter fishing for similar species with similar gear types.Madden, CJ and Grossman, DH (2004) A Framework for a Coastal/Marine Ecological Classification Standard . NatureServe, page 86. Prepared for NOAA under Contract EA-133C-03-SE-0275

Fisheries by type Krill fishery Shrimp fishery

Wild fisheries Wild fisheries Mixed stock fishery Biomass (ecology) Littoral zone Red tide Dead zone (ecology) Water column Marine snow Continental shelf pump Upwelling Humboldt Current Ocean gyre

Ocean habitats Aquatic ecosystem Continental shelf Neritic zone Littoral zone Intertidal Pelagic zone Demersal zone Benthic zone Benthos Coral reefs Estuary Seamount Fishing banks

Farmed fisheries Fish farm Broodstock Fish stock Fish hatchery Fish stocking Salmon aquaculture Aquaculture of catfish Aquaculture of tilapia Freshwater prawn farm Shrimp farm Oyster farming tailwater Hirudiculture National Fish Hatchery System Sea louse infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis Taura syndrome White spot syndrome Yellowhead disease

Aquaculture

Aquaculture Mariculture Algaculture Fish farming - Raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures such as fish ponds, usually for food. Aquaponics integrated multi-trophic aquaculture Inland saline aquaculture Raceway (aquaculture) Geothermal energy and aquaculture Aquaculture engineering Fisheries and aquaculture research institutes

Fisheries science Fisheries science – Fisheries science is the academic discipline of managing and understanding fisheries. Population dynamics of fisheries – Shifting baseline – the way significant changes to a system are measured against previous reference points, which themselves may represent significant changes from the original state of the system. Fish stock – Fish stocks are subpopulations of a particular species of fish, for which intrinsic parameters are the only significant factors in determining population dynamics, while extrinsic factors are considered to be insignificant. Fish mortality – Fish mortality is a term widely used in fisheries science that denotes the loss of fish from a stock through death. Condition index – The condition index in fish is a way to measure the overall health of a fish by comparing its weight with the typical weight of other fish of the same kind and of the same length. Stock assessment – Stock assessments provide fisheries managers with the information that is used in the regulation of a fish stock. Fish measurement – Fish measurement is the measuring of the length of individual fish and of various parts of their anatomy. Fish counter – Automatic fish counters are automatic devices for measuring the number of fish passing along a particular river in a particular period of time. Data storage tag – A data storage tag, also sometimes known as an archival tag, is a data logger that uses sensors to record data at predetermined intervals. Catch per unit effort – In fisheries and conservation biology, the catch per unit effort is an indirect measure of the abundance of a target species. Otolith microchemical analysis – Otolith microchemical analysis is a technique used in fisheries management and fisheries biology to delineate stocks and characterize movements, and natal origin of fish. Biomass – Biomass, in ecology, is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time. Fisheries acoustics – Fisheries acoustics includes a range of research and practical application topics using acoustical devices as sensors in aquatic environments. Acoustic tag – An acoustic tag is a small sound-emitting device that allows the detection and/or remote tracking of fish in three dimensions. EcoSCOPE – The ecoSCOPE is an optical sensor system, deployed from a small remotely operated vehicle or fibre optic cable, to investigate behavior and microdistribution of small organisms in the ocean. Age class structure – Age class structure in fisheries and wildlife management is a part of population assessment. Trophic level – Trophic cascades – Match/mismatch hypothesis – The match/mismatch hypothesis was first described by David Cushing . Fisheries and climate change – * Brander, Keith "Impacts of climate change on fisheries" Journal of Marine Systems, 79: 389–402. Marine biology – Marine biology is the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Aquatic ecosystems Aquatic ecosystem Bioeconomics – Bioeconomics is closely related to the early development of theories in fisheries economics, initially in the mid-1950s by Canadian economists Scott GordonSchaefer MB (1957) "Some considerations of population dynamics and economics in relation to the management of marine fishes" Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 14: 669–81. and Anthony Scott . Their ideas used recent achievements in biological fisheries modelling, primarily the works by Schaefer on establishing a formal relationship between fishing activities and biological growth through mathematical modelling confirmed by empirical studies, and also relates itself to ecology and the environment and resource protection. EconMult – EconMult is a general fleet model to be used in fisheries modelling. Ecopath – Ecopath with Ecosim is a free ecosystem modelling software suite, initially started at NOAA by Jeffrey Polovina, but has since primarily been developed at the UBC Fisheries Centre of the University of British Columbia. FishBase – FishBase is a comprehensive database of information about fish species .Marine Fellow: Rainer Froese Pew Environment Group. It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web.Stergiou KI and Tsikliras AC (2006) Scientific impact of FishBase: A citation analysis In: Palomares MLD, Stergiou KI and Pauly D (eds.), Fishes in Databases and Ecosystems. UBC Fisheries Centre, Research reports 14(4): 2–6. Over time it has "evolved into a dynamic and versatile ecological tool", widely cited in scholarly publications.References Citing FishBase FishBase. Last modified 5 July 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2011. Census of Marine Life – The Census of Marine Life was a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans. OSTM – The Ocean Surface Topography Mission on the Jason-2 satellite is an international Earth observation satellite mission that continues the sea surface height measurements begun in 1992 by the joint NASA/CNES TOPEX/Poseidon mission and followed by the NASA/CNES Jason-1 mission launched in 2001. Marine conservation Environmental impact of fishing Fisheries and aquaculture research institutes Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC)

Wild fisheries science

Wild fishery – a fishery is an area with an associated fish or aquatic population which is harvested for its commercial value. Fisheries can be marine or freshwater. They can also be wild or farmed. Ocean fisheries – Diversity of fish – Fish are very diverse and are categorized in many ways. Coastal fish – Coastal fish, also called offshore fish or neritic fish, are fish that inhabit the sea between the shoreline and the edge of the continental shelf. Coral reef fish – Coral reef fish are fish which live amongst or in close relation to coral reefs. Demersal fish – Demersal fish live on or near the bottom of the sea or lakes. Forage fish – Forage fish, also called prey fish or bait fish, are small pelagic fish which are preyed on by larger predators for food. Pelagic fish – Pelagic fish live near the surface or in the water column of coastal, ocean and lake waters, but not on the bottom of the sea or the lake. Cod fisheries – Cod fisheries are fisheries for cod. Crab fisheries – Crab fisheries are fisheries which capture or farm crabs. Eel fisheries – The spawning area of the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica, has also been precisely located to be to the west of the Suruga seamount Krill fisheries – The krill fishery is the commercial fishery of krill, small shrimp-like marine animals that live in the oceans worldwide. Lobster fisheries – Lobster fishing, sometimes called lobstering, is the commercial or recreational harvesting of marine lobsters, spiny lobsters or crayfish. Shrimp and prawn fisheries – Eel ladder – An eel ladder is type of fish ladder designed to help eels swim past barriers, such as dams and weirs or even natural barriers, to reach upriver feeding grounds. Fish ladder – A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass or fish steps, is a structure on or around artificial barriers to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration. Fish screen – A fish screen is designed to prevent fish from swimming or being drawn into an aqueduct, cooling water intake, dam or other diversion on a river, lake or waterway where water is taken for human use. Migration – Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annually or longer, and over distances ranging from a few metres to thousands of kilometres. Salmon run – The salmon run is the time when salmon, which have migrated from the ocean, swim to the upper reaches of rivers where they spawn on gravel beds. Sardine run – The sardine run of southern Africa occurs from May through July when billions of sardines – or more specifically the Southern African pilchard Sardinops sagax – spawn in the cool waters of the Agulhas Bank and move northward along the east coast of South Africa. Shoaling and schooling – In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling . Marine habitats – The sedimentologist Francis Shepard classified coasts as primary or secondary. Marine snow – In the deep ocean, marine snow is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column. Water column – A water column is a conceptual column of water from surface to bottom sediments. Upwelling – Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water towards the ocean surface, replacing the warmer, usually nutrient-depleted surface water.Mann, K.H., Lazier, J.R.N. (2006) Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems: Biological-Physical Interactions in the Oceans. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Humboldt current – The Humboldt Current, also known as the Peru Current, is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north-westward along the west coast of South America from the southern tip of Chile to northern Peru. Algal blooms algal bloom Dead zones – Dead zones are hypoxic areas in the world's oceans, the observed incidences of which have been increasing since oceanographers began noting them in the 1970s.