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catchability
noun
The relative or absolute amount of fish in a population that could be caught in a unit time under specified conditions
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"I have worked extensively on trawl fisheries, and on this very issue of catchability, and have never encountered anyone using such low catchabilities for large benthic fishes".
The scientists said these numbers were far too small to be significant, and they took exception to the stated assumption that only one beluga was caught for every 25 in the trawl's path, a low level of what is called catchability.
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"The catchabilities assumed for these sturgeons are crazy, much too low," said Dr. Daniel Pauly of the University of British Columbia.
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