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stock
A local fish population and ideally, the basic unit managed in fisheries.

A stock is a breeding unit, defined by having its own time and place for spawning, and its own pattern of migration to and from nursery, feeding, and spawning grounds.

Stocks can generally be differentiated genetically, morphologically, or based on other differences.

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