A.I.M.S. - Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville
CMT - customary marine tenure
DWA - Department of Women's Affairs
ESCAP - Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations
FAD - fish aggregating device
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FFA - Forum Fisheries Agency
FTC - Fisheries Training Centre at Luganville, Santo
NGO - Non-Government organizations
NPSO - National Planning and Statistics Office
ORSTOM -
SPC - South Pacific Commission
vatu (vt) - Vanuatu currency. 100 vt = c. USD0.95
VFDP - Village fisheries development programme
VNCW - Vanuatu National Council of Women
WBU - Women's Business Unit. Department of Cooperative & Rural Business Development
and local terms
"bonaro" - bow and arrow
karong - Spanish mackerel? or wahoo?
laplap - a staple made from grated rootcrop or banana and coconut cream baked in a ground oven
mangrou - nearshore small pelagic fish comprising Selar boops. .S. crumenophthalmus and two species of Decapterus. Also possibly a herring.
nagato - small turban shell
nakato - hermit crab
namarai - eel
narvei - the poisonous seed pod of a tree commonly used to poison fish
natalai - giant clam (Tridacnidae)
naura - lobster (solwara) or prawn (freswara)
nawita - octopus
picot - rabbitfish (Siganus species)
Santo - refers as often to the main town (Luganville) as it does to the island (Espiritu Santo)
tuluk - a snack-sized item of beef. pig or fish encased in laplap
