Statistical Terms Glossary

A right to catch a specified quantity of fish, or proportion of the total allowable fish catch or a right to use a boat (or any other specified fishing equipment) in a manner specified in a management plan or in the fishery regulations.

The right to exploit fishing grounds over more than one year. When they are transferable, fishing rights constitute an intangible non-produced asset. Fishing rights must be distinguished from fishing licences. Fishing licenses are payable annually and cover the right to fish in specific waters only for the year covered and their payment should be regarded as a form of rent and not as the acquisition of an asset.

Fishing support vessels receive the catch of fishing vessels and supply vessels that bring fuel and provisions to fishing vessels.

An online tool to disseminate publicly available information on individual fishing vessels.

Before a country allows a fishing vessel to be registered (fishing vessel registration) and before it allows a vessel to fly the country’s flag, the country should make sure that it has the ability to control the fishing activities of the vessel.

Any vessel, boat, ship, or other craft that is used for, equipped to be used for, or of a type that is normally used for the exploitation of living aquatic resources or in support of such activity. This definition may include any vessel aiding or assisting one or more vessels at sea in the performance of any activity relating to fishing, including, but not limited to, preparation, supply, storage, refrigeration, transportation, or processing (e.g. mother ships).

Fixed assets are defined in national accounts as non-financial produced assets that are used repeatedly or continuously in production for more than one year.

Fixed assets include not only dwellings, buildings, structures, machinery and equipment but also

Fixed assets are tangible or intangible assets produced as outputs from processes of production that are themselves used repeatedly or continuously in other processes of production for more than one year.

Fixed costs are costs that do not vary with the amount produced. Examples are interest on debt, property taxes and rent.

Is the tendency for different technological systems to evolve towards performing similar tasks. Convergence can refer to previously separate technologies such as voice (and telephony features), data (and productivity applications) and video that now share resources and interact with each other, synergistically creating new efficiencies. A clear trend is emerging in the form of fixed and mobile telephony convergence (FMC). The aim is to provide both services with a single phone, which could switch between networks ad hoc. Several industry standardisation activities have been completed in this area such as the Voice call continuity (VCC) specifications defined by the 3GPP.

Persons with a fixed place of work outside the home includes those who do not have a fixed place of work but who report to a fixed address at the beginning of their work period (for example, bus drivers, airline pilots and stewards), including individuals who travel to work, on a regular basis, across the border to a neighbouring country.

Fixed quota allocations formally came into operation in January 1999. They are the mechanism by which the UK’s quotas are divided annually between producer organisations, the non-sector and the under 10 metre fleet. Quotas are allocated in proportion to the number of FQA units held by the vessels in membership of each group on 1 January of each quota year. These units, with one or two exceptions, reflect the catches made by fishing vessels during the reference period 1994 to 1996. For vessels over 10 metres the units are linked to individual vessel licences and normally move with the licence when it is transferred or aggregated onto another vessel. For vessels under 10 metres there is a single block of units based on the aggregated activity of that part of the fleet during the 1994 to 1996 reference period. In announcing the introduction of FQAs in June 1998 Ministers advised that under the new arrangements no facility was being made for the separate disposal of all or part of the units associated with fishing vessel licences and that the operation of FQAs would be reviewed after 3 years.

A bond whose coupon payments remain unchanged for the life of the bond or for a certain number of years.