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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS


CCAMLR

Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

CCRF

Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries

CCSBT

Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna

COFI

Committee on Fisheries, FAO

COLTO

Coalition of Legal Toothfish Operators

CWP

Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics

EC

European Community

EDIFACT

Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport

EEZ

Exclusive Economic Zone

EU

European Union

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FFA

South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency

FMC

Fisheries Monitoring Centre

GIS

Geographical Information System

HSVAR

High Seas Vessels Authorization Record, FAO

IATTC

Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission

ICCAT

International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas

IOTC

Indian Ocean Tuna Commission

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

ISSCFC

International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishery Commodities

ISSCFV

International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishing Vessels

IUU Fishing

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

MCS

Monitoring, Control and Surveillance

NAF

North Atlantic Format

NAFO

Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization

NEAFC

North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission

RFMO

Regional Fisheries Management Organization

SHEEL

Secure and Harmonised European Electronic Logbook

UNFSA

"United Nations Fish Stock Agreement", properly the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks

UN-LOCODE

United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations

VMS

Vessel Monitoring System

XML

Extensible Markup Language


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