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FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization
NMFS: National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization
RFB: Regional Fishing Body
EBFM: Ecosystem-based Fishery Management
UN: United Nations
LOS: Law of the Sea
IWC: International Whaling Commission
EEZ: Exclusive Economic Zone

WCD: World Commission on Dams 

Terms and Definitions

Sustainable: Fishing healthy ecosystems at a level and in a manner that it is reasonably believed can be continued indefinitely, assuming proper responses to ecosystem changes.

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