Acronyms and abbreviations
Automatic identification system
Catch per unit effort
Closed-circuit television
Community-based fisheries management
Cost recovery charge
Euro
European Commission
European Fisheries Fund
European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
European Union
European Union Common Fisheries Policy
Exclusive economic zone
Fisheries support estimate
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean
General services support estimate or General support to the sector
Government financial transfers
Greenhouse gas
Gross tonnes
hectare
Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
Individual transferable quota
Integrated ocean management
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
International Criminal Police Organization
International Fishmeal and Fish Oil Organisation
kilogramme
kilometre
Management, control and surveillance or Management, control and enforcement
Marine protected area
Maximum economic yield
Maximum sustainable yield is the largest long-term average catch or yield that can be taken from a stock or stock complex under prevailing ecological and environmental conditions.
OECD Fisheries Committee
Regional fisheries management organisation
Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries
Sustainable Development Goal
The level of biomass (B) that will produce the maximum sustainable yield (MSY).
The precautionary reference point for spawning stock biomass (SSB).
The rate of fishing mortality (F) consistent with achieving maximum sustainable yield.
Spawning stock biomass or the total weight of all mature fish in the stock.
Total allowable catch
Transfers to individual fishers
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
United States dollar
Vessel monitoring system
World Customs Organization
World Trade Organization
Zone de conservation halieutique