Glossary
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| 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 |