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stip-, stipit-
(Latin: compress, compressed, to press together, to pack; related to: stalk, log, stock, trunk of a tree)
carpho-
(Greek: karphos, straw, dry stock, bit, or scrap; from karphein, to wither, to wrinkle, to dry)
staphyl-, staphylo- +
(Greek: bunch of grapes, uvula [that which resembles a grape hanging from a stock]; staphylococci, grape-shaped bacteria occurring in irregular clusters)
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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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