Animals that live within the sediment.

Industrialisation or industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.

Industrial fisheries are defined as a category of capture fishery that generally present (some of) the following characteristics: (i) high capital equipment and expenditure, (ii) highly level of mechanization, motorization and onboard processing, (iii) large vessel size (> 24 m and > 50 GT), (iv) based on a business more vertically integrated, with generally global market access, (v) operating offshore on a multi-days basis.

Industrial effluent is in general considered to be industrial wastewater - treated or untreated - that flows out of a sewage treatment facility or the wastewater discharge from industrial facilities. Generally refers to wastes discharged into surface waters.

A type of quota (a part of a Total Allowable Catch) allocated to individual fishermen or vessel owners and which can be sold to others.

An allocation to an individual (a person or a legal entity (e.g. a company)) of a right

Individual behaviour is usually understood as anything an animal or a person does in response to a particular situation or stimulus. Actions may be overt (motor or verbal) and directly measurable, or covert (activities not viewable but involving voluntary muscles) and indirectly measurable.

See values.

Indirect drivers are the forces that underlie and shape the extent, severity and combination of anthropogenic direct drivers that operate in a given place. They include key institutional and governance structures in addition to social, economic and cultural contexts. They are the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and can be external to the system in question.

Drivers that operate by altering the level or rate of change of one or more direct drivers.