Not all pine species produce significant amounts of resin to justify harvesting; the main harvestable species occur in Mediterranean countries, the United States, China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Some 2.6m of the South China Sea's total area of 3.5m square kilometres are said to be under the city's jurisdiction, giving access to a wealth of resources: an estimated 5m tonnes of harvestable fish and huge reserves of oil and natural gas.
No new rights are given over fish or other creatures in the water column, but living creatures on or below the seafloor that are immobile "at the harvestable stage" are treated like minerals.
Subsequently, the population as a whole (and not just the harvestable surplus) begins to decline.
Their mud colouring and relatively small size (carapaces up to 28 cm [11 inches]) make them inconspicuous and more likely to be overlooked in cultures that view all turtles as harvestable for food or medicine.
Industrial and private owners may be most interested in producing a harvestable product for a processing mill.
Domestication, the propagation of selected individuals, leads to uniform population maturity, loss of natural seed dispersal, and an increase in the yield of harvestable seed.
Often, there is a discrepancy between the amount of harvestable skin and the extent of the potential recipient sites.
They will then be flown to Panama, where they'll be hatched, raised to harvestable size, slaughtered, and imported into the U.S. as the familiar orange-hued fillets that Americans have come to prefer above all other types of fish.
(Later court decisions interpreted "fair share" as half the harvestable fish that pass through traditional fishing grounds).
It is no sign of disrespect that the city's plan for counting its over-all homeless population is modelled, in part, on wildlife research — estimating harvestable stocks… Two dollars doesn't buy much — half a hot dog at Yankee Stadium, one shined shoe outside Grand Central — but it is twice as much as one, and….
