West of Scotland Greater Silver Smelt Fisheries Management Plan

Abbreviations

BMP - Bycatch Monitoring Programme

CFP – Common Fisheries Policy

CO2e - Carbon Dioxide Equivalent

DAERA - Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Northern Ireland

Defra - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

EU - European Union

FMP - Fisheries Management Plan

FMSY - Fishing mortality consistent with Maximum Sustainable Yield

GES - Good Environmental Status

GSS - Greater Silver Smelt (Argentina silus)

ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

JFS - Joint Fisheries Statement

JNCC - Joint Nature Conservation Committee

MCRS - Minimum Conservation Reference Size

MCCIP - Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership

MCS - Monitoring, Control and Surveillance

MMO - Marine Management Organisation

MPA - Marine Protected Area

MSY - Maximum Sustainable Yield

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

PMF - Priority Marine Feature

REM - Remote Electronic Monitoring

SNCB - Statutory Nature Conservation Body

SPISDCP - Scottish Pelagic Industry-Science Data Collection Programme

STECF - Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries

TAC - Total Allowable Catch

TCA - Trade and Cooperation Agreement

UK - United Kingdom

UK MS - UK Marine Strategy

VMS - Vessel Monitoring System

WGDEEP - ICES Working Group on the Biology and Assessment of Deep-Sea Fisheries Resources