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rate of natural increase
(English) Instantaneous rate of surplus production (equal to rate of growth plus rate of recruitment less rate of natural mortality - all in terms of weight and on an instantaneous basis. In a balanced or equilibrium fishery, this increment replaces what is removed by fishing, and rate of surplus production is numerically equal to rate of fishing.

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