Essential Fishery Information (EFI)

In regard to fisheries, EFI refers to information about fish, invertebrate, or plant life history and habitat requirements; the status and trends of populations, fishing effort, and catch levels; fishery effects on age structure and on other marine living resources and users, and any other information related to the biology of a species or to its take in a fishery that is necessary to permit fisheries to be managed according to the requirements of this code.