Statistical Terms Glossary

Fee payable for registration of bonds and other official requirements.

A bank appointed by the borrower as its agent for a new issue of securities when no trustee has been appointed. Its functions include those of a principal paying agent and a number of the clerical functions but none of the fiduciary responsibilities of a trustee.

Fiscal consolidation is a policy aimed at reducing government deficits and debt accumulation

1. Reduction in real income due to the increase in income from inflation, resulting in income earners
being placed in higher tax brackets.
2. Action by public financial authorities with regard
to economic activity.

Fiscal operations are actions taken by the government to implement budgetary policies, such as revenue and expenditure measures, as well as issuance of public debt instruments and public debt management.

A set of policies is sustainable if a borrower is expected to be able to continue servicing its debt without an unrealistically large future correction to the balance of income and expenditure.

Openness toward the public at large about government structure and functions, fiscal policy intentions, public sector accounts, and projections.

See Framework for indicators of sustainable development

Refers to organisms that will be impacted during and after fishing, including fish, shrimp, seabirds, marine mammals, turtles, live coral, jellyfish, etc.

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Farming implies some sort of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, protection from predators and so forth. It also implies individual or corporate ownership of the stock being cultivated.

Add fish farming definition to FT: Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. It involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. A facility that releases juvenile fish into the wild for recreational fishing or to supplement a species' natural numbers is generally referred to as a fish hatchery.

The native fishes of a district or country collectively.

Fish for food/human consumption indicates fish production, excluding non-food uses, such as fish destined to reduction into fishmeal and fish oil, minus exports, plus imports, plus/minus stock data.

Fish fraud is committed when fish is deliberately placed on the market, for financial gain, with the intention of deceiving the consumer.

Initial processing of raw fish. Fish handling is one of the major categories of fish processing, together with fish products manufacturing.

System of conveyors, hoppers etc., which transfers catch to on-board fish processing equipment. 

The capacity of the fishing fleet to harvest fish, usually expressed in terms of some measure of vessel size, such as gross tonnage, hold capacity, horsepower.