Hawaii FEP - Western Pacific Fishery Council

Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIA): Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, JohnstonAtoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Wake Island and Palmyra Atoll.Passive Fishing Gear: Gear left unattended for a period of time prior to retrieval (e.g., traps, gillnets).Precautionary Approach: The implementation of conservation measures even in the absence ofscientific certainty that fish stocks are being overexploited.Recreational Fishing: Fishing for sport or pleasure.Recruitment: A measure of the weight or number of fish which enter a defined portion of thestock such as fishable stock (those fish above the minimum legal size) or spawning stock(those fish which are sexually mature).Reef: A ridgelike or mound-like structure built by sedentary calcareous organisms and consistingmostly of their remains. It is wave-resistant and stands above the surrounding sediment. Itis characteristically colonized by communities of encrusting and colonial invertebratesand calcareous algae.Reef-obligate Species: An organism dependent on coral reefs for survival.Regulatory Discards: Any species caught that fishermen are required by regulation to discardwhenever caught, or are required to retain but not sell.Resilience: The ability of a population or ecosystem to withstand change and to recover fromstress (natural or anthropogenic).Restoration: The transplanting of live organisms from their natural habitat in one area to anotherarea where losses of, or damage to, those organisms has occurred with the purpose ofrestoring the damaged or otherwise compromised area to its original, or a substantiallyimproved, condition; additionally, the altering of the physical characteristics (e.g.,substrate, water quality) of an area that has been changed through human activities toreturn it as close as possible to its natural state in order to restore habitat for organisms.Rock: Any consolidated or coherent and relatively hard, naturally formed, mass of mineralmatter.Rod-and-Reel: A hand-held fishing rod with a manually or electrically operated reel attached.Scuba-assisted Fishing: Fishing, typically by spear or by hand collection, using assistedbreathing apparatus.Secretary: The Secretary of Commerce or a designee.Sessile: Attached to a substrate; non-motile for all or part of the life cycle.xviii