What does MSY stand for?

Maximum Sustainable Yield

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Official figures show that 88 per cent of EU stocks are fished beyond their maximum sustainable yield - the highest catch that can be maintained over an indefinite period - and for some, such as North Sea cod, the vast majority of fish are caught before they have reproduced.

Scots fishermen fear fresh cuts to fleet in new EU cull

Long sounding the alarm about overcapacity in Europe's fishing industry, the commission said that "at present, the fleet is capable of catching between two and three times the maximum sustainable yield.

EU urges action on fishing fleet's overcapacity

The document said annual production of fish in local waters has reached 26,700 tonnes, 30 percent above the maximum sustainable yield set by a recent study on sustainable fishing, the Post said.

Hong Kong considers ban on fishing trawlers: report

A target catch for a species would be set at less than the maximum sustainable yield.

Proposed rules aimed at depleted fish stocks

In 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 192 nations signed on to a non-binding agreement to restore fisheries stocks to their maximum sustainable yield by 2015.

Populations of large ocean fish decimated

The annual maximum sustainable yield (MSY) was determined by using the results of Mees (1993), where the MSY was estimated as 24% of the initial virgin biomass of P.

The effect of intensive line fishing on the virgin biomass of a ...

The petitioners base their arguments on what most marine biologists refer to as the Theory of 20s: By the year 2020, 20 percent of the world's fisheries must be protected from angling to produce their maximum sustainable yield.

FISHING-BAN PROPOSAL ENTERS NEXT CHAPTER; COMMISSION WANTS TO ...

The cod fishery's margin of error is so small, Cook says, that trying to manage the stock for maximum sustainable yield would virtually guarantee its collapse.

Overfishing imperils cod reproduction