gauntlet fishery

gauntlet fishery
a fisheries method where only juveniles are taken. Once the fish have "run the gauntlet" as juveniles they are safe from the fishery and adults of reproductive age are not fished. Only works with species where the juveniles are large enough to be commercially important

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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