North Sea Horse Mackerel Fisheries Management Plan

Abbreviations

BMP - Bycatch Monitoring Programme

CFP – Common Fisheries Policy

CO2e - Carbon Dioxide Equivalent

CSWC - Celtic Sea and Western Channel

Defra - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

DATRAS - Database of Trawl Surveys

EBFM - Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

EU - European Union

FMP - Fisheries Management Plan

FMSY - Fishing mortality consistent with Maximum Sustainable Yield

GES - Good Environmental Status

ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

JFS - Joint Fisheries Statement

JNCC - Joint Nature Conservation Committee

MCRS - Minimum Conservation Reference Size

MCS - Monitoring, Control and Surveillance

MMO - Marine Management Organisation

MPA - Marine Protected Area

MSY - Maximum Sustainable Yield

MSY Btrigger - Biomass reference point used within the MSY framework

OSPAR - Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic

PMF - Priority Marine Feature

REM - Remote Electronic Monitoring

SCNS - Southern and Central North Sea

SNCB - Statutory Nature Conservation Body

SPISDCP - Scottish Pelagic Industry-Science Data Collection Programme

SSB - Spawning Stock Biomass

TAC - Total Allowable Catch

UK - United Kingdom

UK MS - UK Marine Strategy

VMS - Vessel Monitoring System