Glossary

Altruistic | Showing a selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish

Anthropocentric | Regarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence, especially as opposed to God or animals

Antioxidant | Substance that removes potentially damaging oxidizing agents in a living organism

Arrhythmias | Condition in which the heart beats with an irregular or abnormal rhythm

Arterial | Bright red blood present in most arteries that has been oxygenated in lungs or gills

Artisanal | Harvested in a traditional or non-mechanized way

Assay | Test for measuring content

Aural | Relating to the ear or the sense of hearing

Barotrauma | Injury to gas bladder caused by a change in air pressure

Bio-piezoelectric generator | A type of generator that converts one form of energy to another form

Biocentric | View or belief that the rights and needs of humans are not more important than those of other living things

Built aquatic habitats | Constructed by humans

Characiform | Large order of freshwater fish that occur in Africa, South America, and Central America

Cilia | Short microscopic hairlike vibrating structures found in large numbers on the surface of certain cells causing currents in the surrounding fluid

Clupeiform | Large group of pelagic fish including herring, shad, menhadens, sardine, anchovy, and their relatives

Concomitant | Naturally accompanying or associated

Consequentialism | The doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged solely by its consequences

Corollary | Proposition that follows from (and is often appended to) one already proved

Creel | Originally a wicker basket for harvested fish

Culture | Use of a water body for production of coldwater or warmwater fish in a hatchery or rearing station

Deontological | Regarding the study of the nature of duty and obligation

Deontology | Study of the nature of duty and obligation

Deposition | Laying down of sediment carried by wind, flowing water, the sea or ice

Disaggregated | Separated into its component parts

Egoism | An ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of morality

Egoistic | Treating self-interest as the foundation of morality

Episodic | Regarding reproduction. occurring occasionally and at irregular intervals

Epitaph | Something by which a person, time, or event will be remembered

Equilibrium yield | Catch that could be taken every year by a fixed amount of fishing effort, maintaining the stock at a constant level, assuming a steady-state situation "at equilibrium" with the total fishing effort in the long term

Equity | The quality of being fair and impartial

Estuary | Tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream

Exsanguination | Action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood

Extirpated | Eliminated from existence in the wild

Extrinsic | Not part of the essential nature of someone or something

Fallacy | Mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument

Fecundity | Ability to produce an abundance of offspring, new growth, or number of eggs

Fidelity | Faithfulness to a reproductive partner

Fish | Limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water

Fish meal | Ground dried fish used as fertilizer or animal feed.

Fishing | The activity of catching fish, either for food or as a sport

Flax | Plant grown for its fiber, from which linen is made, and for its seed, from which oil and livestock feed are obtained

Habituate | Make or become accustomed or used to something

Hatchery effluent | Wastes discharged from fish hatchery

Hegemony | Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others

Hematocrit | Ratio of the volume of red blood cells to the total volume of blood

Hermaphrodite | An organism having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition

Heterogeneous | Diverse in character or content

Holistic | Belief that the parts of something are interconnected and can be explained only by reference to the whole

Homologous | Similar in position, structure, and evolutionary origin but not necessarily in function

Hydroponically | Process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid

In situ | Situated in the original place

Indeterminate | Not known in advance or precisely fixed in extent

Inertial | Keeping something in same position or moving in same direction

Integrated species conservation plans | Addresses multiple species with one action plan

Intrinsic | Belonging naturally or essential

Inviolate | Never wrong or violated

Isinglass | A kind of gelatin obtained from fish, especially sturgeon, and used in making jellies, glue, or clarifying ale

Isthmus | Narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land

Juxtaposed | Place or deal with close together for contrasting effect

Laggard | Person who makes slow progress and falls behind others

Laissez-faire | Letting things take their own course or abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market

Lamellae | Thin layers of living tissue

Laudable | Deserving praise or commendation

Lipid | Class of organic compounds that are fatty acids or their derivatives and are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents

Littoral | Relating to or denoting the zone of the seashore between high- and low-water marks, or the zone near a lake shore with rooted vegetation

Maladaptive | Not providing adequate or appropriate adjustment to the environment or situation

Manioc | Starch or flour obtained from the root of cassava, a tropical tree

Marginalized | Treated as insignificant or peripheral

Moratorium; moratoria | Test(s) for measuring content

Myriad | A countless or extremely great number

Nociceptors | A sensory receptor for painful stimuli

Normative | Establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behavior

Noxious | Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant

Obligate | Restricted to a particular function or mode of life

Oocyte | Cell in an ovary which may undergo meiotic division to form an ovum

Organochlorine | Any of a large group of pesticides and other synthetic organic compounds with chlorinated aromatic molecules

Ova | Mature female reproductive cells, which can divide to give rise to an embryo usually only after fertilization by a male cell

Overcapitalize | Possessing more capital than is advisable or necessary

Panacea | A solution for all difficulties

Paradigm | A typical pattern

Pathological management | Involving or caused by compulsive or obsessive responses

PCBs | Polychlorinated biphenyls: carcinogenic contaminants

Pedagogy | Method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept

Pejorative | Expressing contempt or disapproval

Pelagic | Inhabiting the upper layers of a water body

Pequi | Citrus-and-cheese-flavored fruit from a native tree of Brazil's highlands

Pheromone | A chemical substance produced and released into the environment by an animal, affecting the behavior or physiology of others of its species

Photoreceptor | A sensory cell or sense organ, that responds to light falling on it

Pineal | Tissue in the brain that secretes a hormone-like substance

Piscivorous | Feeding on fish

Pliosaur | An extinct reptile, specifically a plesiosaur with a short neck, large head, and massive toothed jaws

Pluralism | Condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, coexist.

Postulate | To suggest or assume as true as the basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief

Practitioner | Person actively engaged in an art, discipline, or profession

Pragmatism | Approach that assesses the truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application

Protogynous | Having the female reproductive organs come to maturity before the male

Quasi-governmental organization | A business entity that provides specific governmental services

Rawlsian | Relating to theory of justice, developed by John Rawls, that aims to constitute a system to ensure the fair distribution of primary social goods

Recruitment | Increase in a natural population as progeny grow and immigrants arrive

Refract | Change direction when it enters at an angle

Rover | Traveling aimlessly from place to place

Sac fry | Recently hatched fish larva that is still too immature to achieve motility and relies on yolk sac for nutrition

Sadistic | Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others

Salient | Most noticeable or important

Satiety | The feeling or state of being full or satisfied

Schistosomiasis | Disease caused by parasitic worms

Sentient | Capacity to experience feelings and sensations

Sheikhs | Leaders in a Muslim community or organization

Socioeconomic | Relating to or concerned with the interaction of social and economic factors

Supererogatory | Observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required

Taxonomy | Branch of science concerned with classification of organisms

Technocrat | Advocate for or member of a technically skilled elite

Teleological | Relating to or involving the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose or consequences they serve rather than of the cause by which they arise

Terminal tackle | Type of hook or lure at the end of fishing line

Transgressing | Infringing or going beyond the bounds of a moral principle or other established standard of behavior

Transitive inference | The ability to infer social relationships between individuals

Transshipped | Transferred cargo from one ship or other form of transport to another

Triangulate | Position oneself in such a way as to appeal to or appease both left-wing and right-wing standpoints (as used in ethics)

Triglyceride | Main constituent of natural fats and oils, and high concentrations in the blood indicate an elevated risk of stroke

Truncate | Shorten the duration or extent of

Ubiquitous | Occurring everywhere

Utilitarian | Relating to or adhering to the doctrine of utilitarianism: an act is good if it benefits the majority

Veblen good | Good for which demand increases as the price increases

Year-class | Those fish that occur in same calendar year

Zoocentrist | One who holds the viewpoint or theory that focuses on animals, giving them preference above all other considerations