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DEFINITION
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The process of grouping (of fish) for various behavioural reasons related to migration, spawning or feeding. The concentration of fish resulting from such process. May refer to schooling or a school as well as to concentrations of shools.
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Other Definitions
May refer to 'schooling', which involves behavioural grouping of animals; but 'aggregation' is also used to reflect concentration (of fish) for unknown reasons or direct causes such as the concentration of food organisms, or for spawning. |
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Comonwealth of Australia (1997): http://www.brs.gov.au/fish/gloss.html
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The practice of incorporating groups of individuals or species into a single, indivisible component when building models of complex systems. |
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Cooke, J.G. (1984), Glossary of technical terms. In Exploitation of Marine Communities, R.M. May (ed), Springer-Verlag
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