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no-take

no-take adjective: under a level of protection where nobody is permitted to remove any fish or other organisms.

Adjective

no-take (not comparable)

  1. Under a level of protection where nobody is permitted to remove any fish or other organisms.
    • Here we provide 17 reasons why there is a strong scientific, management, and public interest in using no-take marine reserves to build sustainable fisheries and protect marine ecosystems.2004, J Brooke Shipley, Aquatic protected areas as fisheries management tools
    • There are also other flow-on benefits for many species in areas outside a no-take area - for example, spill-over of adults and juvenile fishes, as well as larval recruitment...2006, Michael Lockwood, Graeme Worboys, Ashish Kothari, Managing protected areas: a global guide

Questions about no-take

What does no-take mean?
No-take means under a level of protection where nobody is permitted to remove any fish or other organisms.
What part of speech is no-take?
No-take is an adjective.

Words near no-take in the dictionary

  1. no-sky lines
  2. no-sold
  3. no-stride
  4. no-strides
  5. no-strings-attached
  6. no-take
  7. no-tell hotel
  8. no-tell hotels
  9. no-tell motel
  10. no-tell motels
  11. no-till

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