Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2014. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fish Stock Rebuilding Plans in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18488.
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| ABC | Acceptable Biological Catch, a catch that is less than the OFL to account for scientific uncertainty |
| ACL | annual catch limit, typically specified in units of tons |
| ACT | annual catch target |
| AM | accountability measures |
| AOA | Analysis of Alternatives |
| ASMFC | Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission |
| B | Generic reference to biomass (usually measured in terms of spawning stock biomass, but other units such as egg production may be preferred) |
| B0 | The unfished equilibrium biomass |
| BMSY | Biomass corresponding to Maximum Sustainable Yield (often determined using a proxy such as 40 percent of B0) |
| Bt | Biomass in year t (usually measured in terms of spawning stock biomass, but other units such as egg production may be preferred) |
| Bx% | The average biomass corresponding to fishing at a rate of Fx%. |
| CFP | Common Fisheries Policy |
| CMFC | Caribbean Fishery Management Council |
| CPUE | catch per unit effort |
| CRA | “Crayfish,” New Zealand management area designation for spiny red rock lobster |
| DFO | Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
| EBFM | Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management |
| EC | European Commission |
| EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone |
| EFH | Essential Fish Habitat |
| EIS | Environmental Impact Statement |
| EU | European Union |
| F | Generic reference to fishing mortality |
| Fx% | The fishing mortality rate at which spawner biomass-per-recruit is reduced to x% of its unfished level |
| FACL | Target fishing mortality |
| FMSY | Fishing mortality rate corresponding to Maximum Sustainable Yield |
| FREBUILD | Fishing mortality that achieves a 50 percent probability of rebuilding by TTARGET |
| FTHREAT | Fishing mortality that drives a component population to threatened or endangered status |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FCMA | Fishery Conservation and Management Act (See also MFCMA, MSFCMA, MSA and SFA) |
| FIS | Fishery Impact Statements |
| FMP | Fishery Management Plan |
| FSRP | Fish Stock Rebuilding Plan |
| FSSI | Fish Stock Sustainability Index, a list of stocks and their status relative to being overfished and subject to overfishing. |
| GMFMC | Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council |
| HCR | Harvest Control Rule |
| HMS | highly migratory species |
| IATTC | Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission |
| ICES | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea |
| ICNAF | International Commission for the North Atlantic Fisheries |
| IPHC | International Pacific Halibut Commission |
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2014. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fish Stock Rebuilding Plans in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18488.
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| M | Coefficient of natural mortality |
| MAFMC | Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council |
| MEY | Maximum Economic Yield |
| MFCMA | Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (as amended in 1980) |
| MFMT | Maximum Fishing Mortality Threshold (cannot exceed FMSY) |
| MSA | Magnuson Stevens Act (See also FCMA, MFCMA, MSFCMA, and SFA) |
| MSE | Management Strategy Evaluations |
| MSFCMA | Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (as amended in 1996; see also FCMA, MFCMA, and SFA) |
| MSST | Minimum Stock Size Threshold, the level of biomass at which a stock is declared to be overfished, often set at 50 percent of the BMSY (or its proxy). |
| MSY | Maximum Sustainable Yield |
| MT | metric tons |
| NAS | National Academy of Sciences |
| NEFMC | New England Fishery Management Council |
| NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
| NMFS | National Marine Fisheries Service |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NPFMC | North Pacific Fishery Management Council |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NS1G | National Standard 1 Guidelines |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OFL | Overfishing Limit, the biomass of catch corresponding to a catch under a FMSY harvest strategy |
| OY | Optimum Yield |
| PFMC | Pacific Fishery Management Council |
| RFMC | Regional Fishery Management Council |
| RIR | Regulatory Impact Review |
| SAFE | Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation |
| SAFMC | South Atlantic Fishery Management Council |
| SDC | Status Determination Criteria |
| SFA | Sustainable Fisheries Act (1996), an amendment to the MFCMA |
| SSB | spawning stock biomass |
| SSC | Scientific and Statistical Committee |
| SPR | Spawning Potential Ratio |
| SPRTARGET | Target spawning potential ratio (equivalent to the target fishing mortality rate if the mix of fishing gears does not change over time) |
| Steepness | Fraction of unfished recruitment expected when the stock is depleted to 20 percent of B0 |
| T | Generic reference to time |
| TMIN | Minimum time to rebuild to BMSY (with 50 percent probability) |
| TMAX | Maximum permissible time to rebuild to BMSY (10 years unless the biology of the species does not allow the stock to rebuild in 10 years) |
| TTARGET | Target time for rebuilding—must lie between TMIN and TMAX |
| TAC | Total Allowable Catch |
| UNFA | United Nations Agreement on Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks |
| USR | Upper Stock Reference |
| WPFMC | Western Pacific Fishery Management Council |
| YD | Year a stock was declared to be overfished |
