Acronyms

Acronym	Abbreviation Meaning
A
AAC	Alaska Administrative Code
ABC	Acceptable biological catch
ABM	Abundance-Based Management
ACA	Adak Community Allocation
ACEPO	Annual Community Engagement and Participation Overview
ACL	Annual Catch Limit
ACLIM	Alaska Climate Integrated Modeling
ACT	Annual Catch Target
ADF&G	Alaska Department of Fish and Game
ADP	Annual Deployment Plan
AEQ	Adult equivalent
AFA	American Fisheries Act
AFSC	Alaska Fisheries Science Center
AFS	American Fisheries Society
AI	Aleutian Islands
AK BOF	Alaska Board of Fisheries
AKFIN	Alaska Fisheries Information Network
AKR	Alaska Region
AKRO	Alaska Regional Office
Alts	Alternatives
ANCSA	Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
ANILCA	Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
ANPR	Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
ANS	Amounts Reasonably Necessary for Subsistence
AP	Advisory Panel
B
B	Biomass
BASIS	Bering Sea-Aleutian Salmon International Survey
BBR	Bristol Bay Red King Crab
BBRKC	Bristol Bay Red King Crab
BEG	Biological escapement goal
BiOp	Biological Opinion
BMSY	biomass that enables a fish stock to deliver maximum sustainable yield
BKC	Blue King Crab
BOF	Board of Fish
BRD	Bycatch Reduction Device
BSAI	 Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
BSIA	Best Scientific Information Available
BSFRF	Bering Sea Fisheries Research Foundation
BSIERP	Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program
BSS	Bering Sea Snow Crab
BST	Bering Sea Tanner Crab
C
C Shares	Crew quota share (CVC or CPC)
CADF	Catch accounting and data forwarding
CAS	Catch Accounting System
CCC	Council Coordination Committee
CCL	Combined Catch Limit
CCTF	Climate Change Task Force
CDQ	Community Development Quota
CEC	Community Engagement Committee
CEFI	Climate, Ecosystem, and Fisheries Initiative
CEQ	Council on Environmental Quality
CFR	Code of Federal Regulations
CFEC	Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission
CG	Central Gulf of Alaska
CGOA	Central Gulf of Alaska
CH	Critical Habitat
CI	confidence interval
CIE	Center for Independent Experts
COAR	Commercial Operators Annual Report
COBLZ	C. opilio Bycatch Limitation Zone
Council	North Pacific Fishery Management Council
CM	Catch Monitor
CMCP	Catch Monitoring Control Plan
Cmte	Committee
CMOD	Council Member Ongoing Development
CP	Catcher/processor
CPC	Catcher Processor Crew (quota share)
CPO	Catcher processor owner (quota share)
CPT	Crab Plan Team
CR	Crab Rationalization
CRS	Climate Readiness Synthesis
CSP	Catch Sharing Plan
CQE	Community Quota Entity
CVC	Catcher Vessel Crew (quota share)
CV	Catcher vessel
CVO	Catcher Vessel Owner
CVOA	Catcher vessel operational area
CWT	Coded-wire tag
D
DEIS	Draft Environmental Impact Statement
DMR	Discard Mortality Rate
DPS	Distinct population segment
DSR	Demersal Shelf Rockfish
E
E.O.	Executive Order
EA	Environmental Assessment
EAFG	Ecosystem approach to fisheries management
EAG	Eastern Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab
EBM	Ecosystem-based management
EAM	Ecosystem approach to management
EBFM	Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management
EBS	Eastern Bering Sea
EBT	Eastern Bering Sea Tanner Crab
ECO	Ecosystem Committee
EDR	Economic Data Reporting
EEZ	Exclusive Economic Zone
EFH	Essential Fish Habitat
EFP	Exempted Fishing Permit
EIS	Environmental Impact Statement
EM	Electronic monitoring
EMC	Electronic Monitoring Committee
EO	Executive Order
ESA	Endangered Species Act
ESP	Ecological and Socioeconomic Profile
ESSR	Economic and Social Sciences Research
ESR	Ecosystem Status Report
ESU	Evolutionary Significant Unit
F
FATE	Fisheries and the Environment
FEIS	Final Environmental Impact Statement
FEP	Fishery Ecosystem Plan
FE	Fishery Evaluation
FFP	Federal Fisheries Permit
FLL	Freezer longliner
FMA	AFSC Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division (aka the Observer Program)
FMAC	Fishery Monitoring Advisory Committee
FMP	Fishery Management Plan
FONSI	Finding of No Significant Impact
FR	Federal Register
FRFA	Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
G
gfish	Groundfish
GHL	Guideline Harvest Level
GKC	Golden King Crab
GOA	Gulf of Alaska
GOACLIM	Gulf of Alaska Climate Integrated Modeling Project
H
HAL	Hook and Line
HAPC	Habitat Areas of Particular Concern
HDS	Halibut Deck Sorting
HWG	Habitat Working Group
I
IAD	Initial Administration Determination
IBA	Individual Bycatch Accounting
IBQ	Individual Bycatch Quota
ICA	Inter-cooperative Agreements
ICC	Intergovernmental Consultive Committee
ID	Identification
IFQ	Individual Fishing Quota
IPA	Incentive Plan (Program) Agreements
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPHC	International Pacific Halibut Commission
IPQ	Individual Processor Quotas
IQF	Individually quick frozen
IRA	Inflation Reduction Act
IUCN	International Union for Conservation of Nature
IRFA	Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
IRIU	Improved retention/improved utilization
J
JAM	Jeopardy or adverse modification
K
KTC	King and Tanner Crab
L
LAPP	Limited Access Privilege Program
LAMP	Local Area Management Plan
LEI	Long-term effect index
LK	Local Knowledge
LKTKS	Local Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge, and Subsistance
LLP	License limitation program
LOA	Length overall
M
m	Meter or meters
MBTA	Migratory Bird Treaty Act
MCA	Maximum Commerce Amount
MFMT	Maximum Fish Mortality Threshold
MMB	Mature male biomass
MMPA	Marine Mammal Protection Act
MOU	Memorandum of Understanding
MPA	Marine Protected Area
MRA	Maximum Retainable Amount
MREP	Marine Resource Education Program
MRFSS	Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistical Survey
MRSAM	Multi-Regional Social Accounting Matrix
MSA	Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
MSE	Management Strategy Evaluation
MSST	Minimum stock size threshold
MSY	Maximum sustainable yield
mt	Metric ton
N
NAICS	North American Industry Classification System
NAO	NOAA Administrative Order
NBBTA	Northern Bristol Bay Trawl Area
NBSRA	Northern Bering Sea Research Area
NEPA	National Environmental Policy Act
nm	Nautical miles
NMFS	National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOI	Notice of Intent
NOVA	Notice of Violation and Assessment
NPAFC	North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission
NPFMC	North Pacific Fishery Management Council
NPPSD	North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database
NPRB	North Pacific Research Board
NRC	National Research Council
NRDC	Natural Resources Defense Council
NSRKC	Norton Sound Red King Crab
OCEM	other effective area-based conservation measures
O
OP	North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program
OFL	Over Fishing Limit
OECM	other effective area-based conservation measures
OEG	Optimal escapement goal
OLE	Office of Law Enforcement
OMB	Office of Management and Budget
OROX	Other Rockfish complex
OY	Optimum Yield
P
PA	Preferred Alternative
PBR	Potential biological removal
PCFMAC	Partial Coverage Fishery Monitoring Advisory Committee
PCTC	Pacific Cod Trawl Cooperative
PEEC	Preview of Economic and Ecological Conditions
PEIS	Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
PIBKC	Pribilof Island Blue King Crab
PIG	Pribilof Islands Golden King Crab
PIGKC	Pribilof Island Golden King Crab
PIK	Pribilof Islands Red King Crab
PIHCZ	Pribilof Islands Habitat Conservation Zone
PIRKC	Pribilof Islands Red King Crab
PNCIAC	Pacific Northwest Crab Industry Advisory Committee
POP	Pacific ocean perch
PPA	Preliminary preferred alternative
PQS	Processor Quota Share
PRA	Paperwork Reduction Act
PSC	Prohibited Species Catch
PSEIS	Programmatic Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
PSMFC	Pacific States Marines Fisheries Commission
PT	Plan Team
PWS	Prince William Sound
Q
QS	Quota Share
R
RA	Regional Administrator
RAC	Regional Advisory Council (USFWS)
RAM	Restricted Access Management
RAP	Regional Action Plan
RCR	Registered Crab Receiver
RE/BS	Rougheye/Blackspotted Rockfish
REFM	Resource Ecology Fisheries Management
RFA	Regulatory Flexibility Act
RFFA	Reasonably foreseeable future action
RHS	Rolling Hotspot Closure System
RFI	Request for information
RFP	Request for Proposals
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
S
SAFE	Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation
SAR	Stock Assessment Report
SBA	Small Business Act
SBRM	Standard Bycatch Reporting Methodology
SCAA	Statistical Catch at Age Analysis
SCS	Scientific Coordination Subcommittee of the Regional Fishery Management Council Coordination Committee
SDC	Status determination criteria
SEO	Southeast Outside
SDM	Species Distribution Model
SOC	Secretary of Commerce
SEG	Sustainable escapement goal
SET	Sustainable escapement threshold
SFA	Sustainable Fisheries Act
SIA	Social Impact Assessment
SIR	Supplemental Information Report
SMB	St. Matthew Island Blue King Crab
SMBKC	St. Matthews Blue King Crab
SNP	Single nucleotide polymorphism
SPLASH	Structure of Populations, Levels of Abundance, and Status of Humpbacks
SPR	Spawning Potential Ratio
spp	species (plural)
SRKW	Southern resident killer whales
SSB	Spawning Stock Biomass
SSC	Scientific and Statistical Committee
SSFP	Sustainable Salmon Fisheries Policy
SSL	Steller sea lion
SSM	Single-species management
STAR	Stock Assessment Review
SW	Southwest
T
TAC	Total Allowable Catch
TK	Traditional Knowledge
TLA	Trawl Limited Access
TLAS	Trawl Limited Access Sector
TRP	Take Reduction Plan
U
UFM	Unobserved Fishing Mortality
UFMWG	Unobserved Fishing Mortality Work Group
UME	Unusual Mortality Event
U.S.	United States of America
USCG	United States Coast Guard
USFWS	United States Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS	United States Geological Service
V
VPA	Virtual Population Analysis
VTR	Vessel Trip Report
VTS	Vessel Tracking System
VMS	Vessel Monitoring System
W
W	West
WAG	Western Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab
WAI	Western Aleutian Islands (Adak) Red King Crab
WAK	Western Alaska
WAG	Western Aleutian Islands Golden King Crab
WBT	Western Bering Sea Tanner Crab
WG	Western Gulf of Alaska
WGOA	Western Gulf of Alaska
WY	West Yakutat reporting area
WPUE	Weight per unit effort
Y
YFS	Yellowfin sole
YPR	Yield Per Recruit
Z
ZMRG	Zero Mortality Rate Goal
specs	harvest specifications