Catch Curve
A catch curve is a descriptive figure that describes catch by age and length. A catch curve only reflects fish that have recruited to a fishery and does not reflect the full age structure of a stock. A catch curve illustrates the proportions that different age and size classes are harvested by a fishery.
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Famous quotes containing the words catch and/or curve:
“Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 5:8.
Simon, upon seeing the miraculous catch of fish.
“And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)