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recruit-to-spawner ratio
(English) An estimate of the number of recruits (fish that are available for harvest in addition to those that escape the fishery to spawn) produced by the previous generation of spawners. The spawner-to-spawner ratio estimates the number of spawners (those fish that reproduced or were expected to reproduce) in one generation produced by the previous generation of spawners. A spawner-to-spawner ratio of 1.0 indicates that, on average, each spawner produced one offspring that survived to spawn; the size of such a population would remain unchanged over that generation.

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