Jargon Buster

topic : Science

Abundance
Acoustic survey
Acoustical oceanography
Aerial survey
Algal Bloom
Anadromous
Anoxia
Antarctic convergence
Availability
Barometer
Bathypelagic
Benthos
Bimodal
Bioacoustics
Biodiversity
Biogeochemical Cycle
Biomass
Bony fish
Brackish water
Breach
Brood
Bycatch Reduction Device (BRD)
Catadromous
Catch Per Unit Effort (CPUE) / Catch Rate
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)
Climate change
Cohort
Conspecific
Continental margin
Continental shelf
Continental slope
Coriolis effect
Dead zone
Deep ocean currents
Demersal zone
Diatoms
Dorsal
Downwelling
Echinoderms
Ecosystem
Ectothermic
Ekman transport
El Niño
Elasmobranch
Electrophoresis
Endangered species
Endemic
Endothermic
Epibenthos
Epipelagic
Eulittoral zone
Euryhaline
Eutrophication
F0.1
Fecundity
Fisheries Dependent
Fisheries Independent
Fishing mortality (F)
Fishing mortality limit (Flim)
Fmax
FMP
FMSY – Fishing Mortality corresponding to Maximum Sustainable Yield
Forage fish
Foreshore
Founder effect
Fpa
Front
Gametes
Gene flow
Geographical Information System (GIS)
Global warming
Ground fish
Gulf
Halocine
Hypoxia
International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES)
Intertidal
Introduced species
Invertebrates
Isobath
Isopleth
Isopods
Isotherm
Juvenile
La Niña
Land runoff
Larvae
Littoral
Maturation rate
Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY)
Natural Mortality
Nutrients
Oceanography
Otolith
Pelagic fish
Pelagic zone
Phytoplankton
Recruitment
Relative abundance
Runoff
Shoaling
Stock
Sustainability
Swept areas survey
Vertebrates
Yield
Zooplankton

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