Biology GCSE
Fishing quotas
What Fishing quotas means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Fishing quotas
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A limit on the number or mass of fish that can be caught from a particular stock in a given period, so the breeding population remains large enough to reproduce.
Topics that use Fishing quotas
- Sustainable fisheries (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Breeding population
- Conservation methods
- Net size
- Fish stocks
- Local extinction
- Overfishing
- Recruitment
- Sustainable fisheries
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