enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Fish measurement - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_measurement

   Overall length. Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the posterior end of the last vertebra or to the posterior end of the midlateral portion of the hypural plate. This measurement excludes the length of the caudal (tail) fin. [1] Total and fork length of a fish. Total length (TL) is the length of a ...

3. Slot limit - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_limit

   A slot limit is a tool used by fisheries managers to regulate the size of fish that can legally be harvested from particular bodies of water. Usually set by state fish and game departments, the protected slot limit prohibits the harvest of fish where the lengths, measured from the snout to the end of the tail, fall within the protected interval. [1]

4. International rule (sailing) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_rule_(sailing)

   International rule (sailing) The International rule, also known as the Metre rule, was created for the measuring and rating of yachts to allow different designs of yacht to race together under a handicap system. Prior to the ratification of the International rule in 1907, countries raced yachts under their own national rules and international ...

5. Navigational instrument - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigational_instrument

   Navigational instrument. Navigational instruments are instruments used by nautical navigators and pilots as tools of their trade. The purpose of navigation is to ascertain the present position and to determine the speed, direction, etc. to arrive at the port or point of destination.

6. Alaskan king crab fishing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_king_crab_fishing

   Alaskan king crab fishing is carried out during the fall in the waters off the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. The commercial catch is shipped worldwide. Large numbers of king crab are also caught in Russian and international waters. In 1980, at the peak of the king crab industry, Alaskan fisheries produced up to 200,000,000 pounds ...

7. List of nautical units of measurement - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nautical_units_of...

   Speed. League. Length. Nautical mile. Length. Rhumb. Angle. The angle between two successive points of the thirty-two point compass (11 degrees 15 minutes) (rare) [1] Shackle.