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DEFINITION
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Or standing stock. The total weight of a group (or stock) of living organisms (e.g.fish, plancton) or of some defined fraction of it (e.g. spawners), in an area, at a particular time. See: Abundance.
Example: the spawning biomass of the cod stock on the Georges Bank in 1999.
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Other Definitions
The weight of a fish stock, or of some defined portion of it. |
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Ricker W.E. (1975): Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 191: 2-6
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| RELATED TERMS |
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Biomass
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| ALTERNATE SPELLING |
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no alternate spelling
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