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CCAMLR: Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
EBFM: Ecosystem-based Fishery Management
EEZ: Exclusive Economic Zone
FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization
FLO: Fairtrade Labelling Organizations
GPS: Global Positioning System
ICES: International Council for the Exploration of the Seas
ITQ: Individual Transferable Quotas
IUU: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated
IWC: International Whaling Commission
LOS: Law of the Sea
MPA: Marine Protected Area
MSY: Maximum Sustainable Yield
NEAFC: North East Fisheries Commission
NMFS: National Marine Fisheries Service
NGO: Non-governmental organization
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization
PIT: Passive Integrated Transponder
RFB: Regional Fishery Body
TAC: Total Allowable Catch
UN: United Nations
VMS: Vessel Monitoring System
WCD: World Commission on Dams
WTO: World Trade Organization
WWF: World Wildlife Fund
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Healthy Ecosystem: A healthy ecosystem is characterized by optimal biodiversity, populations at carrying capacity, an age distribution as close to normal as possible, natural predator-prey balance, robustness to change, recovery of crashed populations, and minimal negative anthropogenic changes in all of these criteria..
Marine Protected Area: Any region of the ocean conferred any level of protection.
Marine Reserve: See "no-take zones"
No-take zones: designated areas of the ocean where all extractive and/or exploitative uses are indefinitely prohibitedNo-take: no-take zones do not allowing any fishing or other activities harmful to the ecosystem.
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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