towel grape Asking for an assignment. Can anybody tell me the difference between fish stock and fish population? This is a matter of dictionary look-ups.
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towel grape Asking for an assignment. Can anybody tell me the difference between fish stock and fish population?
This is a matter of dictionary look-ups.
stock: an amount of something that you keep so that you can use it when you need it
population: all the people who live in a particular area
Of course, it's fish and not people in your ex
The currently accepted definition of a stock in fisheries science, is that of Begg et al. (1999), “…[a “stock”] describes characteristics of semi-discrete groups of fish with some definable attributes which are of interest to fishery managers.”