GIS
Geographic Information System
GIS-MCE
GIS-based Multi-Criteria Evaluation
GPS
Global Positioning System
GRT
Gross register tonnage
GW
Gigawatt
GWEC
Global Wind Energy Council
HLS
Harvard Law School
H max
Maximum wave height
HOARP
Hawaiian Offshore Aquaculture Research Project
HSVA
Hamburg Ship Model Basin
HSWRI
Hubbs Sea World Research Institute
ICES
International Commission for the Exploration of the Seas
ICT
Information and communications technology
ICZM
Integrated Coastal Zone Management
i.e.
Id est (that is to say, that is)
ILVO
Instituut voor Landbouw- en Visserijonderzoek (Institute for
Agricultural and Fisheries Research)
IMTA
Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture
InVEST
Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs
IQF
Individually Quick Frozen
IRR
Internal rate of return
IWGA
Interagency Working Group on Aquaculture
Km
Kilometers
kN
Kilo Newton
KW
Kilowatt
LAD
Ladder Collector
LCM
Life Cycle Management
LIS
Long Island Sound
LEC
Looped Christmas Tree
LL
Longline
LOC
Leaded Christmas Tree
M
Material
m
Mass, meter
m a
Additional mass
MAP
Modified Atmosphere Packaging
MaRS
Marine Resource System
MaxEnt
Maximum Entropy modelling
m c
Collector mass
MEAB
Millennium ecosystem assessment
MFA
Marine Fisheries Agency
MIC
Microbial corrosion
MIMES
Multi-scale Integrated Models of Ecosystem Services
m l
Line mass
MMC
Multipurpose Marine Cadastre
MMO
Marine Management Organization
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