Term:
Depleted stock
Definition:
Populations of sea cucumbers within a fishery that have declined to levels whereby the rate of natural reproduction and population replenishment is poor, or unable to keep pace with mortality losses, due to low densities of breeding adults.
Domain:
Fishery
Source:
Putting into practice an ecosystem approach to managing sea cucumber fisheries, FAO, 2010 (http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1780e/i1780e02.pdf).
