Term:
Minimum biomass acceptable level; minimum biological acceptable level
Definition:
Biological reference pointthat indicates aspawning biomasslevel under which the observed biomasses during a period of years, are small and the associated recruitments are smaller than the mean or median recruitment.
Domain:
Fishery
Source:
Fish Stock Assessment Manual, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 393, Fisheries Department, FAO, 2000.
