Abbreviations^[2]

ALCOM

Aquatic Resource Management for Local Communities Development Programme

ANOVA

Analysis of Variance

AWRD

African Water Resource Database

BLUE

Best Linear Unbiased Estimator

CEGIS

Center of Environment and GIS for water sector planning, Dhaka, Bangladesh

CPP

Compartmentalization Pilot Project, Tangail, Bangladesh

CPUA

Catch per unit of area

CPUE

Catch per unit of effort

COPEMED

Cooperation in the Mediterranean

DD

Decimal degrees

DEM

Digital Elevation Model

DMS

Degrees Minutes Seconds

DoF

Department of Fisheries

EU

European Union

ESRI

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

f

Fishing effort

FIDI

Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Unit of the FAO Fisheries Department

FIRI

Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service of the FAO Fisheries Department

F_MSY

Fishing effort at maximum sustainable yield

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GPS

Global Positioning System

GIS

Geographic Information Systems

ha

Hectare

IDAF

Integrated Development of Artisanal Fisheries

IDW

Inverse Distance Weighted

MBV

Monodon baculo virus

MPO

Master Plan Organization

MSY

Maximum Sustainable Yield

SQL

Structured Query Language

UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme

UNITAR

United Nations Institute for Training and Research

1. On-line dictionary of GIS terms by the Association for Geographic Information and the University of Edinburgh Department of Geography. http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/welcome.html

2. ESRI GIS Glossary (available in two formats):

a) On-line: http://www.esri.com/library/glossary/a_d.html

b) Publication (ESRI, 2001), available at http://www.evansvillegis.com/PDF/GIS_Dictionary.pdf