112 



GLOSSARY 



IMPORT WEIGHT . The weights of individual products as 

 exported. I.e.. fillets, steaks, whole, headed, etc. 



INDUSTRIAL FISHERY PRODUCTS . Items processed from 

 fish, shellfish, or other aquatic plants and animals that 

 are not consumed directly by humans. These items 

 contain products from seaweeds, fish meal, fish oils, fish 

 solubles, pearl essence, shark and other aquatic animal 

 skins, and shells. 



INTERNAL WATER PROCESSING (IWPs) . An operation in 

 which a foreign vessel is authorized by the governor of 

 a state to receive and process fish in the internal 

 waters of a state. The Magnuson Act refers to internal 

 waters as all waters within the boundaries of a state 

 except those seaward of the baseline from which the 

 territorial sea is measured. 



JOINT VENTURE . An operation authorized under the 

 MFCMA (Magnuson Act) in which a foreign vessel is 

 authorized to receive fish from U.S. fishermen in the U.S. 

 EEZ. The fish received from the U.S. vessel are part of 

 the U.S. harvest. 



LANDINGS, COMMERCIAL . Quantities of fish, shellfish, 

 and other aquatic plants and animals brought ashore 

 and sold. Landings of fish may be in terms of round 

 (live) weight or dressed weight. Landings of 

 crustaceans are generally on a live-weight basis except 

 for shrimp which may be on a heads-on or heads-off 

 basis. Mollusks are generally landed with the shell on. 

 but for some species only the meats are landed, such 

 as sea scallops. Data for all mollusks are published on 

 a meat-weight basis. 



MAGNUSON FISHERY CONSERVATION AND 

 MANAGEMENT ACT , Public Law 94-265. as amended. 

 The Magnuson Act provides a national program for the 

 conservation and management of fisheries to allow for 

 an optimum yield (OY) on a continuing basis and to 

 realize the full potential of the Nation's fishery 

 resources. It established the U.S. Exclusive Economics 

 Zone (EEZ) (formerly the FCZ - Fishery Conservation 

 Zone) and a means to control foreign and certain 

 domestic fisheries through PMPs and FMPs. Within the 

 U.S. EEZ. the United States has exclusive management 

 authority over fish (meaning finfish, mollusks, 

 crustaceans, and all other forms of marine animal and 

 plant life other than marine mammals, birds, and highly 

 migratory species of tuna). The Magnuson Act provides 

 further exclusive management authority beyond the 

 U.S. EEZ for all continental shelf fishery resources and all 

 anadromous species throughout the migratory range of 

 each such species, except during the time they are 

 found within any foreign nation's territorial sea or fishery 



conservation zone (or the equivalent), to the extent 

 that such a sea or zone is recognized by the United 

 States. 



MARINE RECREATIONAL FISHING . Fishing for pleasure, 

 amusement, relaxation, or home consumption. 



MARINE RECREATIONAL CATCH . Quantities of finfish. 

 shellfish and other living aquatic organisms caught, but 

 not necessarily brought ashore, by marine recreational 

 fisherman. 



MARINE RECREATIONAL FISHERMEN . Those people who 

 fish in marine waters primarily for recreational purposes. 

 Their catch is primarily for home consumption, although 

 occasionally a part or all of their catch may be sold 

 and enter commercial channels. This definition is used 

 in the NMFS Marine Recreational Fishery Statistics 

 Survey, and is not intended to represent a NMFS policy 

 on the sale of angler-caught fish. 



MAXIMUM SUSTAINABLE YIELD (MSY) . MSY from a fishery 

 is the largest annual catch or yield in terms of weight of 

 fish caught by both commercial and recreational 

 fishermen that can be taken continuously from a stock 

 under existing environmental conditions. A determi- 

 nation of MSY, which should be an estimate based 

 upon the best scientific information available, is a 

 biological measure necessary in the development of 

 optimum yield. 



METRIC TONS . A measure of weight equal to 1 ,000 

 kilograms, 0.984 long tons, 1 .1023 short tons, or 2,204.6 

 pounds. 



MOTORBOAT . A motor-driven commercial fishing craft 

 having a capacity of less than 5 net tons, or not 

 officially documented by the Coast Guard. See "boat, 

 other." 



NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES ORGANIZATION (NAFO). 

 This convention, which entered into force January 1 , 

 1979, replaces ICNAF. NAFO provides a forum for 

 continued multilateral scientific research and 

 investigation of fishery resources that occur beyond the 

 limits of coastal nations' fishery jurisdiction in the 

 northwest Atlantic, and will ensure consistency 

 between NAFO management measures in this area 

 and those adopted by the coastal nations within the 

 limits of their fishery jurisdiction. 



OPTIMUM YIELD (OY) . In the MFCMA (Magnuson Act), 

 OY with respect to the yield from a fishery, is the 

 amount of fish that (1) will provide the greatest overall 

 benefit to the United States, with particular reference 



