Our glossary defines the sustainable-fishing terms you’ll see on our site.
We compiled the glossary from several publications and resources, which are listed in our glossary bibliography. There are several ways you can use it:
- Browse the glossary list.
- Search for a specific word or term.
- View the glossary alphabetically by clicking a letter box in the bar. If a letter box is gray, then no glossary terms exist for that letter.
Glossary comments or suggestions can be sent to us at [email protected].
Search or Browse the Glossary
a
- ABFM
- ABNJ
- Abundance
- ACAP
- Acoustic tag
- Active beacon
- Adaptive management
- AFADs
- Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
- Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program
- AIDCP
- AIS
- ALB
- Albacore tuna
- Allothunnus fallai
- Anchored FADs
- ANLOG
- AO
- Area Based Fishery Management
- Area closure
- Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
- Artificial log resulting from human fishing activity
- Artificial log resulting from human non-fishing activity
- Artisanal fishing
- Artisanal fleet
- Associated set
- Associated species
- Atlantic bluefin tuna
- Atlantic Ocean
- Automatic Identification System
- Auxis rochei
- Auxis thazard
- AZTI
b
- Beaching
- Beacon
- Benthic zone
- Best practice
- BET
- BFT
- Bigeye tuna
- Billfish
- Biodegradable FADs
- Biodegradable Fish Aggregating Devices
- Biodegradable materials
- Biodiversity
- Bio-FADs
- Biological reference point
- Biomass [B]
- Biomass for the maximum sustainable yield
- Blackfin tuna
- Black marlin
- Black skipjack tuna
- BLM
- Bluefin tuna
- Blue marlin
- BMIS
- BMSY
- Bony fish
- Bottom trawling
- Brailer
- BRD
- BRP
- Bullet tuna
- BUM
- Bycatch
- Bycatch Management Information System
- Bycatch mitigation
- Bycatch reduction device
- Byproduct
c
- C
- CA
- Capacity building
- Capacity management
- Catch
- Catchability
- Catch-and-effort
- Catch [C]
- Catch certificate
- Catch documentation scheme
- Catch in weight
- Catch per unit of effort
- CC
- CCAMLR
- CCM
- CCSBT
- CDS
- CE
- Chondrichthyans
- CITES
- CLAV
- Closed vessel registry
- CMMs
- CNM
- Coastal states
- Coastal waters
- CoC
- COFI
- Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
- Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
- Commission Members, Cooperating Non-Members, and Participating Territories of the WCPFC
- Committee on Fisheries
- Compliance
- Conservation
- Conservation and management measures
- Consignment
- Consolidated List of Authorized Vessels
- Contiguous zone
- Continental shelf
- Contracting Parties and Cooperating Non-Contracting Parties
- Control measures
- Convention area
- Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- Cooperating Non-Members of the WCPFC
- Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics
- COP
- Corralito
- CPCs
- CPUE
- CWP
d
- DAB
- Deactivation
- Decision analysis
- Decision rule
- Demersal fish
- Demersal trawling
- Demersal zone
- Depletion ratio
- Destructive fishing practices or gears
- Developed fishery
- Developing fishery
- DFADs
- Discard
- Discarded/Retained
- Dispute Advisory Body
- Distant water fishing nations
- Dolphin fishing
- Dolphin set
- Dolphin strategy
- Drifting FADs
- Driftnet
- Dropline
- DWFNs
e
- E
- EAFM
- Eastern Pacific Ocean
- EBFM
- Echosounder
- Echosounder buoy
- Eco-certification
- Ecolabel
- Ecological risk assessment
- Ecosystem
- Ecosystem Approach for Fishery Management
- Ecosystem services
- EEZ
- Efficiency
- Effort creep
- Electronic monitoring
- Electronic monitoring system
- Electronic reporting
- Electronic reporting system
- EM
- EMS
- Endangered, threatened or protected species
- Environmental certification
- Environmental Stakeholder Committee
- EPO
- ER
- ERA
- ERS
- ESC
- ETP species
- e-Tunalog
- EU
- European Union
- Euthynnus affinis
- Euthynnus alleteratus
- Euthynnus lineatus
- Exceptional circumstances
- Excess capacity
- Exclusive economic zone
- Exploitation pattern
- Exploitation rate
f
- F
- FAD fishing
- FAD-free set
- FADs
- FAD set
- FAD strategy
- FAL
- FALOG
- FAO
- FCC
- FFA
- FHV
- Finfish
- Fins naturally attached
- FIP
- Fish aggregating devices
- Fish carrying capacity
- Fisheries management
- Fishers
- Fishery
- Fishery improvement project
- Fishery policy
- Fish hold volume
- Fishing capacity
- Fishing effort
- Fishing gear
- Fishing mortality at the maximum economic yield
- Fishing mortality at the maximum sustainable yield
- Fishing mortality rate
- Fishing strategy
- Flag of convenience
- Flag state
- Fleet
- Fleet size
- Flim
- Floating object
- Floating object fishing
- Floating object set
- FMEY
- FMSY
- FNA
- FOB
- FOC
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Food security
- Free school
- Free school set
- Free school strategy
- Free-swimming school
- Frigate tuna
- FS
- FS set
- FS strategy
- Ftarget
g
- GEF
- Generation length
- Geographic information system
- Ghost fishing
- Gillnet
- GIS
- Global Environmental Facility
- Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
- Global Positioning System
- GMDSS
- GN
- Governance
- GPS
- GPS buoy
- Green label
- Gross register tonnage
- Gross tonnage
- Growth overfishing
- GRT
- GT
h
- Habitat
- Habitat structure
- HALOG
- Handline
- Harvest
- Harvest
- Harvest control rules
- Harvest policy
- Harvest rate
- Harvest ratio
- Harvest strategy
- Harvest strategy
- HCR
- Helicopters and radars
- HERFADs
- Highest entanglement risk FADs
- High-grading
- Highly migratory species or stocks
- High seas
i
- IATTC
- ICCAT
- IEMRS
- IEO
- Illegal fishing
- Illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing
- IMO
- IMO #
- Incidental catch
- Index of Abundance
- Indian Ocean
- Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
- Individual Quota
- Individual transferable quota
- Input controls measures
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
- Instituto Español de Oceanografía
- Integrated electronic monitoring and reporting system
- Integrated Stock Assessment
- Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
- International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
- International Maritime Organization
- International Maritime Organization number
- International Plans of Action
- International Pole and Line Foundation
- International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature
- IO
- IOTC
- IPNLF
- IPOAs
- IQ
- IRD
- ISC
- ITQ
- IUCN
- IUU
- IUU vessel list
j
- Jelly-FADs
- Juvenile (fish)
k
- Kawakawa tuna
- Kobe plot
- Kobe strategy matrix
l
- Landings
- Large-scale tuna longline fishing vessel
- Law of the Sea
- LBP
- Length between perpendiculars
- Length overall
- LERFADs
- Limited entry
- Limit reference point
- Line fishing
- Little tunny tuna
- LOA
- Log
- Logbook
- Longline [LL]
- Longtail tuna
- LOS
- Lower entanglement risk FADs
- LRP
- LSTLFV
m
- Major tuna species
- Majuro plot
- Management objectives
- Management options
- Management plan
- Management procedure
- Management strategy
- Management strategy evaluation
- Marine debris
- Marine pollution
- Marine Protected Area
- Marine Resources Assessment Group
- Marine Stewardship Council
- Marine turtle
- Maritime Mobile Service Identity number
- Maturity
- Maximum economic yield
- Maximum sustainable yield
- MCS
- Mesh size
- MEY
- Midwater trawling
- Minor tuna species
- MMSI #
- Monitoring, control and surveillance
- MPA
- MPs
- MRAG
- MSC
- MSE
- MSY
n
- Natural log of animal origin
- Natural log of plant origin
- Natural mortality rate [M]
- Nautical mile
- NE Bio-FADs
- NEFADs
- Neritic tunas
- NGO
- NM
- Nominal catch
- Non-Contracting Parties
- Non-CPCs
- Non-entangling biodegradable FADs
- Non-entangling FADs
- Non-governmental Organization
- Non-target species
o
- OBJ
- Object set
- Observer
- Observer coverage
- Observer programs
- Oceanic Fisheries Programme
- OECMs
- OFP
- OM
- Open access fishery
- Operating model
- Operational beacon
- OPRT
- Organization for the Promotion of Responsible Tuna Fisheries
- Osteichthyes
- OT
- Other Effective Area Based Conservation Measures
- Output controls measures
- Overcapacity
- Overfished
- Overfishing
- Overseas territory
p
- P1
- P2
- P3
- Pacific bluefin tuna
- Pacific Community
- Pacific Island Country
- Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency
- Pacific Ocean
- Parties to the Nauru Agreement
- PBF
- Pelagic fish
- Pelagic trawling
- Pelagic zone
- Performance indicators
- Performance measures
- Performance metrics
- Performance statistics
- PIC
- PIs
- PL
- PNA
- PO
- Pole-and-line
- Pop-up tag
- Port States Measures Agreement
- Preassessment
- Precautionary approach
- PRI
- Principle 1
- Principle 2
- Principle 3
- ProActive Vessel Register
- Productivity and Susceptibility Analysis
- Productivity (biological)
- Productivity (economic)
- PS
- PSA
- PSMA
- Purse seine
- PVR
- PZ
q
- Quota
r
- R
- RBF
- Rebuilding
- Recovery plan
- Recreational fisheries
- Recreational fishing
- Recruit
- Recruitment
- Recruitment impairment, (Point of)
- Recruitment overfishing
- Reef
- Reference points
- Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
- Regional fishery body
- Regional Fishery Management Organization
- Regional Fishery Management Organization
- Regional vessel register
- Registered length
- Resilience
- RFB
- RFMOs
- RGL
- Ring net
- Risk analysis
- Risk assessment
- Risk based framework
- RVR
s
- SAC
- Satellite tag
- SB
- SBR
- SBT
- SC
- School
- School fishing
- Scientific Advisory Committee
- Scientific Committee
- Scoring Issue
- Sea turtle
- Selective gear
- Set
- SFP
- SH
- Shared stocks
- Shark
- Shark finning
- Shark finning
- SI
- SIDS
- Silky shark
- Skipjack tuna
- Skippers workshops
- SKJ
- Slender tuna
- Small Island Developing States
- SOLAS
- SoS
- Southern bluefin tuna
- Southern hemisphere
- South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization
- Spatial management
- Spawning biomass
- Spawning Biomass Ratio
- Spawning potential ratio
- Spawning stock biomass capable of producing maximum sustainable yield
- SPC
- Species
- Sport fisheries
- Sport fishing
- SPR
- SPRFMO
- SRR
- SSB
- SSB0
- SSBlim
- SSBMSY
- SSBtarget
- Stakeholder
- Status of the stocks report
- Steepness
- Stock
- Stock assessment
- Stock-Recruitment relationship
- Stock status
- Straddling stock
- Stranding
- Supply chain
- Supply vessel
- Support vessel
- Surface fishery
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
- Sustainable label
- Sustainable or sustainable use (fish stocks)
- Swim bladder
- SWO
- Swordfish
t
- TAC
- TAE
- TAF
- Tagging
- Target fishing mortality rate
- Target reference point
- Target species
- Technical Advisory Board [TAB]
- Temperate tuna species
- Temperate waters
- Tender vessel
- Terms of reference
- Territorial sea
- Threshold reference point
- Thunnus atlanticus
- Thunnus tonggol
- TOR
- Tori line
- Total allowable catch
- Total allowable effort
- Total allowable fishing mortality
- Transboundary stocks
- Transparency
- Transshipment
- Trawling
- T-RFMO
- Troll fishing
- Trolling
- Tropical tuna species
- Tropical waters
- TRP
- TrRP
- Tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organization
u
- UN
- Uncertainty
- UNCLOS
- Underfished stock
- Unexploited biomass
- Unfished biomass
- Unfished level
- UNFSA
- UNGA
- Unique Vessel Identifier
- United Nations
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement
- United Nations General Assembly
- Unit of Assessment
- Unit of Certification
- Unregulated fishing
- Unreported fishing
- Unwanted catch
- UoA
- UoC
- UVI
v
- VDS
- Vessel day scheme
- Vessel monitoring system
- Vessel operator
- Vessel owner
- Vessel type
- VMS
- VNLOG
w
- WCPFC
- WCPO
- Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
- Western and Central Pacific Ocean
- Whale shark set
- Wire trace/leader
- World Trade Organization
- World Tuna Purse Seine Organization
- World Wildlife Fund
- WTO
- WTPO
- WWF
y
- Yellowfin tuna
- YFT
- Yield
- Yield per recruit
- YPR
