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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2000. Improving the Collection, Management, and Use of Marine Fisheries Data. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9969.
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APPENDIX B

Acronyms

ACCSP

Atlantic Cooperative Coastal Statistics Program

ACFCMA

Atlantic Coast Fisheries Cooperative Management Act

AFMIS

Advanced Fisheries Management Information System

AGDB

Alaska Groundfish Data Bank

AKFIN

Alaska Fisheries Information Network

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

AOSN

Autonomous Oceanographic Sampling Network

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CalCOFI

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations

CPUE

catch per unit effort

CTD

conductivity-temperature-depth recorder

CTDEP

Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection

EFCL

Electronic Fish Catch Logbook

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency

F

fishing mortality rate

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

FIN

Fishery Information Network

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standards

FIS

Fisheries Information System

FMP

fishery management plan

FOCI

Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations

FRCC

Fisheries Resource Conservation Council

FRV

fishery research vessel

FVR

fishing vessel registration

GIS

geographic information system

GLOBEC

Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics program

GPRA

Government Performance and Results Act

GPS

Global Positioning System

IFQ

individual fishing quota

ITA

information technology architecture

ITIS

Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2000. Improving the Collection, Management, and Use of Marine Fisheries Data. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9969.
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ITS

Integrated Transportation System

LOOPS

Littoral Ocean Observing and Prediction System

MADMF

Massachusetts Department of Marine Fisheries

MSFCMA

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act

MRFSS

Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey SFA

NAS

National Academy of Sciences

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NBII

National Biological Information Infrastructure

NEFSC

Northeast Fishery Science Center

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NJDF

New Jersey Department of Fisheries

NMFS

National Marine Fisheries Service

NRC

National Research Council

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

NWFSC

Northwest Fishery Science Center

PacFIN

Pacific Fishery Information Network

PFEL

Pacific Fisheries Environment Laboratory

PSMFC

Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission

RM-ODP

Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing

SABRE

South Atlantic Bight Recruitment Experiment

SARC

Stock Assessment Review Committee

SEAMAP

Southeast Assessment and Monitoring Program

SFA

Sustainable Fisheries Act

SQL

Structured Query Language

SSC

scientific and statistical committee (of regional fishery management councils)

STAR

STock Assessment Review panel

TAC

total allowable catch

USDA

United States Department of Agriculture

USGS

United States Geological Survey

VPA

virtual population analysis

VMS

vessel monitoring system

VRS

vessel registration system

VRML

Virtual Reality Modeling Language

VTR

vessel trip report

WMT

Web Mapping Testbed

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2000. Improving the Collection, Management, and Use of Marine Fisheries Data. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9969.
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Congress has promoted fisheries science for over a century and its involvement in fisheries management took a great leap forward with passage of the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976. In the past decade, Congress has requested advice from the National Research Council (NRC) on both national issues (e.g., individual fishing quotas and community development quotas) and the assessments related to specific fisheries (Northeast groundfish). This report was produced, in part, in response to another congressional request, this time related to the assessments of the summer flounder stocks along the East Coast of the United States. Following the initial request, the NRC, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and congressional staff agreed to broaden the study into a more comprehensive review of marine fisheries data collection, management, and use.

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