maximum economic yield

maximum economic yield
the total amount of profit that could be earned from a fishery if it were owned by an individual; the yield above which the revenue generated by a marginal increase in effort is less than the cost necessary for the attainment of that increase. May be measured in dollars or weight. Abbreviated as MEY

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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