Hawai'i Fisheries Initiative - The Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs

Table of
Acronyms
COOL – U.S. Department of Agriculture
requires “country of origin labeling” on
seafood products
DAR – State of Hawai‘i Department of
Land and Natural Resources/Division of
Aquatic Resources
DOCARE – State of Hawai‘i Department
of Land and Natural Resources/Division of
Conservation and Resources Enforcement
EEZ – U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone,
generally 3-200 nautical miles from the
baseline, or mean low tide line
FAD – Fish Aggregating Devices – surface
and sub-surface buoy-like structures that
attract schools of fish
FEP – Fishery Ecosystem Plans, developed
by the eight regional fisheries councils;
the new standard for managing fisheries,
which is more place-based than species or
stock-based
FMP – Fishery Management Plans
developed by the eight federal regional
fisheries management councils
FSSI – Fish Stock Sustainability Index, an
annual report to Congress
HMRFS – Hawai‘i Marine Recreational
Fishing Survey
IATTC – Inter-American Tropical
Tuna Commission
ICCAT – International Commission for the
Conservation of Atlantic Tuna
MLCD – Marine Life Conservation Districts –
that limit or prohibit fishing and other
activities in specified marine areas
MHI – Main Hawaiian Islands
MSA – Magnuson-Stevens Act
NM – nautical mile
NMAI – National Marine
Aquaculture Initiative
NMFS – National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA – National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
NWHI – Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
PIFSC – NMFS Pacific Islands Fisheries
Science Center
PIRO – NMFS Pacific Islands
Regional Office
SLA – 1953 U.S. Submerged Lands Act
UNCLOS – United Nations Conventions on
the Law of the Sea
USCG – U.S. Coast Guard
USCOP – U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy
WCPFC – Western and Central Pacific
Fisheries Commission
WCPO – Western and Central Pacific Ocean
Wespac – Western Pacific Fisheries
Management Council
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