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DEFINITION
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A judgement made by a scientist or scientific body on the state of a resource, such as a fish stock (e.g., size of the stock, potential yield, whether it is over- or underexploited), usually for the purpose of passing advice to a management (qv) authority. |
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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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