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Abbreviations

AAT	Australian Antarctic Territory.
AEEZ	Australian Exclusive Economic Zone.
AFMA	Australian Fisheries Management Authority.
AIMS	Australian Institute of Marine Science.
ANZECC	Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council.
AOP	Australia's Oceans Policy.
CASS	Coastal acid sulfate soils.
CCAMLR	The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
CITES	Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife Flora and Fauna.
COTS	Crown of Thorns Starfish.
CPUE	Catch per unit effort. The quantity of fish caught with one standard unit of fishing effort, e.g. the number of fish taken per 1000 hooks per day or the weight of fish in tonnes taken per hour of trawling.
CRC	Cooperative Research Centre.
CSIRO	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
EEZ	Exclusive Economic Zone.
EPBC Act	Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
ESP Act	Endangered Species Protection Act 1992 (Commonwealth).
FRDC	Fisheries Research and Development Corporation.
GBRMPA	Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
IUCN	World Conservation Union (formerly the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources).
IMCRA	Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation for Australia. A system of regions around the Australian coast based on biology and physical environment.
IWC	International Whaling Commission.
MPA	Marine Protected Area.
MPC	Maximum permitted concentrations, e.g. for metals in food.
MRL	Maximum residue limits, e.g. for organic compounds in food.
NLWRA	National Land and Water Resources Audit.
NPI	National Pollutant Inventory.
NRS	National Residue Survey, a national scheme of measuring residues of contaminants in food.
OCS	Offshore Constitutional Settlement.
PCBs	Polychlorinated biphenyls, a group chlorinated organic compounds that are long lived in the environment because they are resistant to biological degradation.
SOMER	State of the Marine Environment Report.
TAC	Total allowable catch; the total catch allowed to be taken from a resource in a specified period (usually a year), as defined in the management plan. The TAC may be allocated to the stakeholders in the form of quotas as specific quantities or proportions.
TBT	Tributyl tin (see glossary: organotin).
TED	Turtle exclusion device.
UNCLOS	United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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