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‘Unaccounted Mortality’ - a definition
ICES Study Group on Unaccounted Mortality in Fisheries (1995
& 1997) defined fishing mortality (F) as:
F = F c + F b + F d + F e + F g + F o + F a + F h + F p + F i
where: Fc = Landed Catch
Fb = Illegal & Misreported Catch
Fd = Discarded Catch
Fe = Escape Mortality
Fg = Ghost Mortality
Fo = Drop out Mortality
Fa = Avoidance Mortality
Fh = Habitat Degradation Mortality
Fp = Predation mortality
Fi = Infection mortality.
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