ESCAPEMENT CURVE


Meaning of ESCAPEMENT CURVE in English

The relationship between size (or age) and the probability of a fish escaping from the gear after having encountered it, e.g. swimming through the mesh of a net, the sorting grid of a trawl, or the escape gate of a trap. Also callled: Selectivity curve.

Fishery English glossary.      Английский глоссарий рыболовства .