Council listening to a staff report during a meeting at the Anchorage Hilton.
AAC Alaska Administrative Code
ABC Acceptable biological catch
ADFG Alaska Department of Fish and Game
AEQ Adult equivalent
AFA American Fisheries Act
AFSC Alaska Fisheries Science Center
AGDB Alaska Groundfish Data Bank
AI Aleutian Islands
AK BOF Alaska Board of Fisheries
AKFIN Alaska Fisheries Information Network
ANILCA Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
AP Advisory Panel
BASIS Bering Sea-Aleutian Salmon International Survey
BBRKC Bristol Bay Red King Crab
BEG Biological escapement goal
BiOp Biological Opinion
BKC Blue King Crab
BOF Board of Fish
BSAI Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
BSFRF Bering Sea Fisheries Research Foundation
BSIERP Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program
CAS Catch Accounting System
CDQ Community Development Quota
CEQ Council on Environmental Quality
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CGOA Central Gulf of Alaska
CIE Center for Independent Experts
COAR Commercial Operators Annual Report
Council North Pacific Fishery Management Council
CP Catcher/processor
CQE Community Quota Entity
CV Catcher vessel
CVOA Catcher vessel operational area
CWT Coded-wire tag
DPS Distinct population segment
E.O. Executive Order
EA Environmental Assessment
EAM Ecosystem approach to management
EDR Economic Data Reporting
EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone
EFH Essential Fish Habitat
EFP Exempted Fishing Permit
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
EM Electronic monitoring
ESA Endangered Species Act
ESU Endangered species unit
FEP Fishery Ecosystem Plan
FLL Freezer longliner
FMA Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis
FMP Fishery Management Plan
FONSI Finding of No Significant Impact
FR Federal Register
FRFA Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
GHL Guideline Harvest Level
GKC Golden King Crab
GOA Gulf of Alaska
HAPC Habitat Areas of Particular Concern
IBA Individual Bycatch Accounting
IBQ Individual Bycatch Quota
ICA Inter-cooperative Agreements
ID Identification
IFQ Individual Fishing Quota
IPA Incentive Plan (Program) Agreements
IPHC International Pacific Halibut Commission
IPQ Individual Processor Quotas
IQF Individually quick frozen
IRFA Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
IRIU Improved retention/improved utilization
JAM Jeopardy or adverse modification
LAMP Local Area Management Plan
LEI Long-term effect index
LLP License limitation program
LOA Length overall
m Meter or meters
Magnuson-Stevens Act Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
MMPA Marine Mammal Protection Act
MPA Marine Protected Area
MRA Maximum retainable allowance
MSFCMA Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
MSST Minimum stock size threshold
MSY Maximum sustainable yield
mt Metric ton
NAO NOAA Administrative Order
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
nm Nautical miles
NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
NOI Notice of Intent
NPAFC North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission
NPFMC North Pacific Fishery Management Council
NPPSD North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database
Observer Program North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program
OEG Optimal escapement goal
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OY Optimum Yield
PBR Potential biological removal
POP Pacific ocean perch
PPA Preliminary preferred alternative
PRA Paperwork Reduction Act
PSC Prohibited Species Catch
PSEIS Programmatic Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
PSMFC Pacific States Marines Fisheries Commission
PWS Prince William Sound
RFA Regulatory Flexibility Act
RFFA Reasonably foreseeable future action
RIR Regulatory Impact Review
RKC Red King Crab
ROFR Right of First Refusal
RPA Reasonable and prudent alternative
RQE Recreational Quota Entity
RSW Refrigerated seawater
SAFE Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation
SAR Stock Assessment Report
SBA Small Business Act
Secretary Secretary of Commerce
SEG Sustainable escapement goal
SET Sustainable escapement threshold
SIR Supplemental Information Report
SNP Single nucleotide polymorphism
SPLASH Structure of Populations, Levels of Abundance, and Status of Humpbacks
SRKW Southern resident killer whales
SSC Scientific and Statistical Committee
SSFP Sustainable Salmon Fisheries Policy
SSL Steller sea lion
SW Southwest
TAC Total Allowable Catch
TLA Trawl Limited Access
TLAS Trawl Limited Access Sector
U.S. United States of America
USCG United States Coast Guard
USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service
VMS Vessel Monitoring System
W West
YFS Yellowfin sole
