Term:
Fully exploited
Definition:
Term used to qualify a stock which is probably neither being overexploited nor underexploited and is producing, on average, close to its Maximum Sustainable Yield.
Domain:
Fishery
Source:
A Fishery Manager's Guidebook - Management Measures and Their Application, Fisheries Technical Paper No. 424, FAO, 2002 (http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y3427e/y3427e00.htm#Contents)