ACOPS | Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea |
AGMACS | Advisory Group on Marine and Coastal Strategy |
AMO | Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation |
ASP | Amnesic shellfish poisoning |
B lim | ICESSSB 'limit' reference point - low biomass, serious risk to reproductive capacity |
B pa | ICES precautionary biomass reference point - biomass below which management action required to increase biomass |
BAC | Background Assessment Concentration |
BC | Background Concentration |
BERR | Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (previously DTI) |
BGS | British Geological Survey |
BMF | British Marine Federation |
BODC | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology |
CAMP | Comprehensive Atmospheric Monitoring Programme |
CAR | Controlled Activities (Scotland) Regulations 2005 |
CBD | Convention on Biological Diversity |
CD | Compact Disc |
CDOM | Colour Dissolved Organic Matter |
Cefas | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science |
CEH | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
CEMP | Co-ordinated Environmental Monitoring Programme |
CMO | Contributory Marine Objective |
CPR | Continuous Plankton Recorder |
CSSEG | Clean Safe Seas Evidence Group |
CSEMP | Clean Safe seas Environmental Monitoring Programme |
DAC | Data Archive Centre |
DBA | Dibenz[ a,h]anthracene |
DDT | Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane or 4,4'-(2,2,2-trichloroethane-1,1-diyl)bis(chlorobenzene) |
DEHP | Diethylhexylphthalate |
DfT | Department for Transport |
DJFM | December, January, February, March (winter) |
DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
DPAG | Dounreay Particles Advisory Group |
DSP | Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning |
DTI | Department of Trade and Industry (now BERR) |
EAC | Ecotoxicological Assessment Criteria |
EC | European Council |
EEC | European Economic Community |
EMEC | European Marine Energy Centre |
EMEP | Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe |
EcoQ | Ecological Quality |
Eco QO | Ecological Quality Objective |
EQS | Environmental Quality Standards |
E& RDC | Environment and Rural Affairs Committee (Scottish Parliament) |
ERSEM | European Regional Seas Ecosystem Model |
ESAI | East Shetland Atlantic Inflow |
EU | European Union |
F lim | ICES fishing mortality 'limit' reference point - high fishing rate likely to drive biomass below B lim |
F pa | ICES precautionary fishing mortality rate reference point - fishing rate above which management action required |
FEPA | Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 |
FIC | Fair Isle Current |
FRS | Fisheries Research Services |
FSAS | Food Standards Agency Scotland |
GAM | Generalised Additive Modelling framework |
GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
GES | Good Environmental Status (under MSFD) |
GEcS | Good Ecological Status (under WFD) |
GSDP | Glasgow Strategic Drainage Plan |
GVA | Gross Value Added |
HBDC | Hexabromocyclododecane |
HBDSEG | Healthy and Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group |
HMNB | Her Majesty's Naval Base |
HMS | ( UK) Hamonised Monitoring Scheme |
ICES | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea |
IMO | International Maritime Organisation |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
JAMP | Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme |
JNCC | Joint Nature Conservation Committee |
KIMO | Kommunenes Internasjonale Miljorganisasjon (local authorities international environmental organisation) |
Li | Lithium |
LCA | Length Cohort Analysis |
LPUE | Landings per unit effort |
MAPC | Marine Assessment Policy Committee |
MARCLIM | Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change Project |
MARG | Marine Assessment Reporting Group |
MBA | Marine Biological Association |
MCA | Maritime and Coastguard Agency |
MCCIP | Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership |
MDIP | Marine Data and Information Partnership |
MEDAG | Marine Environmental Data Action Group |
MESH | Mapping European Seabed Habitats |
MoD | Ministry of Defence |
MNCR | Marine Nature Conservation Review |
MOC | Meridional Overturning Circulation |
MPA | Marine Protected Area |
MSL | Mean Sea Level |
MSFD | Marine Strategy Framework Directive |
Mt | Million Tonnes |
MT | Motor tanker |
MW | Megawatts |
NAFCMC | North Atlantic Fisheries College Marine Centre |
NAO | North Atlantic Oscillation index |
NCOF | National Centre for Ocean Forecasting |
NOCS | National Oceanography Centre Southampton |
OSPAR | Oslo & Paris OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic |
PA | Problem Area (in respect of OSPAR Comprehensive Procedure) |
PAH | Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon |
PBDE | Polybrominated diphenyl ether |
PCB | Polychlorinated biphenyl (sometimes abbreviated to CB) |
PCI | Phytoplankton Colour Index |
PNP | Potential new primary production |
POL | Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory |
POP | Persistent Organic Pollutant |
PPA | Potential Problem Area (in respect of OSPAR Comprehensive Procedure) |
PSEG | Productive Seas Evidence Group |
PSP | Paralytic shellfish poisoning |
PSR | Pressure State Response framework |
qPCR | Quantitative polymerase chain reaction |
QSR | Quality Status Report ( OSPAR) |
RCAHMS | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland |
RID | Comprehensive Study on Riverine Inputs and Direct Discharges |
RIFE | Radioactivity in Food and the Environment |
RNAD | Royal Navy Armourments Depot |
RSA 93 | Radioactive Substances Act 1993 |
RSPB | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds |
SAC | Special Area of Conservation |
SAHFOS | Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science |
SAMS | Scottish Association for Marine Science |
SARF | Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum |
SBS | Scottish Biodiversity Strategy |
SCM | Site Condition Monitoring |
SEA | Strategic Environmental Assessment |
SEPA | Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
SG | Systematic grid (sampling) |
SGMD | Scottish Government Marine Directorate |
SMP | Seabird Monitoring Programme |
SMRU | Sea Mammal Research Unit |
SNH | Scottish Natural Heritage |
SOTEAG | Shetland Oil Terminal Environmental Advisory Group |
SPA | Special Protection Area |
SPM | Suspended particulate material |
SPRI | Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory |
SSB | Spawning stock biomass |
SSMO | Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation |
SSSI | Site of Special Scientific Interest |
SST | Sea surface temperature |
SR | Stratified random (sampling) |
TAC | Total Allowable Catch |
TBT | Tributyltin |
TIG | Turtle Implementation Group |
TRAC | Transitional and Coastal Waters (under WFD) |
UHI | University of the Highlands and Islands |
UK | United Kingdom |
UKAEA | United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority |
UKBAP | UK Biodiversity Action Plan |
UKCIP | United Kingdom Climate Impacts Programme |
UKCS | United Kingdom continental shelf |
UKDMOS | United Kingdom Database of Marine Observing Systems |
UKMMAS | United Kingdom Marine Monitoring and Assessment Strategy |
UN | United Nations |
UVF | Ultraviolet fluorescence |
UWWTD | Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive |
VA | Value Added |
VPA | Virtual Population Analysis |
WEWS | Water Environment Water Services Act 2003 |
WFD | Water Framework Directive |
WSSD | World Summit on Sustainable Development |