A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Term	Meanings
ABARE	Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource Economics
AbMAC	Abalone Management Advisory Committee
ACCC	Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
ACWA	Aquaculture Council of WA
ADC	Aquaculture Development Council
ADF	Aquaculture Development Fund
AFMA	Australian Fisheries Management Authority
AFZ	Australian Fishing Zone
AIMAC	Abrolhos Islands Management Advisory Committee
AIMDT	Australia Indonesia Maritime Delimitation Treaty
AIMS	Australian Institute of Marine Science
ALC	Automatic Location Communicator
AMSA	Australian Marine Sciences Association
ANCA	Australian Nature Conservation Authority
Angling	The art of fishing with a rod.
ANZFA	Australia , New Zealand Food Authority
Aquaculture	Commonly termed 'fish farming', but broadly refers to commercial growing of marine (mariculture) or freshwater animals and aquatic plants.
AQIS	Australian Quarantine Inspe ction Service
Area closure	The closure of a fishing ground, or part thereof; used as a tool in the management of a fishery.
Area swept	In reference to a demersal trawl, it is the area of the sea floor over which the net is dragged during its operation, and is estimated by multiplying the width of the net mouth by the distance the net is dragged. From data on the densities of fish caught in a unit area swept, an estimate of the biomass in that area can be obtained.
Australian Fishing Zone	Australia has proclaimed a 200-nautical-mile-wide zone around its mainland and territories coasts, within which it controls domestic and foreign access to fish resources.

Derived from: Department of Fisheries publications; Fishery Status Reports. Resource Assessments of Australian Commonwealth Fisheries. 1998. Bureau of Resource Sciences, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Canberra ACT; and Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms, published by Longman Scientific and Technical Press, 1989 (10th edition).