Appendix 6: 



Acronyms and Abbreviations 



ABC acceptable biological catch 



ADFG Alaska Department of Fish and Ciame 



AFSC Alaska Fisheries Science Center 



ASMFC Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission 



CalCOFI California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations 



CFR Code of Federal Regulations 



CI confidence interval 



cm centimeter 



CNMI Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 



COFI Committee on Fisheries 



CPUE catch per unit of effort 



CPY current potential yield 



CV coefficient of variation 



CWP central-western Pacific Ocean 



DDT DichloroDiphenylTrichloroethane 



DNA deoxyribonucleic acid 



EEZ Flxclusive Economic Zone 



EFH essential fish habitat 



ESA Endangered Species Act of 1973 



ESU evolutionarilv significant unit 



ETP eastern tropical Pacific Ocean 



F instantaneous fishing mortality rate 



FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 



FFA South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency 



fm fathom 



f^-^^ rate ot fishing mortality that results in the maximum level of yield per recruit 



FMC fishery management council 



FMP fishery management plan 



FP fibropapillomatosis 



FWCA Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act 



GPS global positioning system 



GSMFC Culf States Marine Fisheries Commission 



HMS highly migratory species 



lATTC Inter-American Iropical luna ("ommission 



ICCAT International Commission tor the Conservation ot Atlantic Tunas 



ICES International Council tor the FAploration ot the Sea 



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