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Abundance
Acoustic survey
Acoustical oceanography
Advisory council
Aerial survey
Algal Bloom
Anadromous
Anoxia
Antarctic convergence
Aquaculture
Artisan fishing
Availability
Bait
Bathypelagic
Beam trawling
Benthos
Billfish
Bimodal
Bioacoustics
Biodiversity
Biogeochemical Cycle
Biological Reference Points
Biomass
Biomass at Maximum Sustainable Yield (BMSY)
Biomass Limit (Blim)
Bony fish
Bottom trawling
Brackish water
Breach
Brood
Bycatch
Bycatch Reduction Device (BRD)
Carapace
Carrying capacity
Catadromous
Catch Per Unit Effort (CPUE) / Catch Rate
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)
Cetacean
Cetacean bycatch
Climate change
Cohort
Commercial fishery
Conspecific
Continental margin
Continental shelf
Continental slope
Coriolis effect
Crustaceans
Data Collection Framework (DFC)
Dead zone
December Council
Deep ocean currents
Demersal fish
Demersal trawling
Demersal zone
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Department for Agriculture, Environment & Rural Affairs (DAERA)
Depletion
Devolved Administrations
Diatoms
Discards
Dorsal
Downwelling
Dredging
Driftnet
Dropline
Echinoderms
Ecosystem
Ecosystem Based Management (EBM)
Ectothermic
Ekman transport
El Niño
Elasmobranch
Electrophoresis
Endangered species
Endemic
Endothermic
Environment Agency (EA)
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Epibenthos
Epipelagic
Eulittoral zone
Euryhaline
Eutrophication
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
Fecundity
Fisheries Dependent
Fisheries Independent
Fishery
Low Impact Fishing
Marine Net Gain
Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY)
Pots
Runoff
Seine netting
Shoaling
Stock
Sustainable development
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)
Vessel Monitoring System (VMS)
Welsh Government Marine and Fisheries Division
Yield
Zooplankton

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