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Term	Meanings
Ecologically Sustainable Development	Using, conserving and enhancing the community's resources so that ecological processes, on which life depends, are maintained, and the total quality of life, now and in the future, can be increased.
Ecosystem	Community of plants, animals and other living organisms within a shared environment/habitat, all living and interacting with each other.
EEZ	Exclusive Economic Zone
Effort	see fishing effort.
Effort restriction	A type of input control used as a management tool whereby the amount of fishing effort expended by fishers in a particular fishery is restricted by law.
EIA	Environmental Impact Assessment
EMS	Environmental Management Strategy
Environmental Impact Assessment	A process carried out by the Environmental Protection Authority for evaluating a proposal, including its alternatives and objectives, and its effect on the environment, including the mitigation and management of those effects. The process extends from the initial concept of the proposal through implementation to commissioning and operation and, where appropriate, decommissioning.
Endemic, endemism	Confined in occurrence to a local region.
Environment	The living things, their physical, biological and social surroundings, and interactions between all of these.
EPBC	Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Epibenthos	Invertebrate animals living on the surface of the seabed.
ERA	Environmental Risk Assessment
ESD	Ecologically Sustainable Development
Estuarine	Of, or pertaining to, an estuary.
Estuary	That part of the mouth or lower course of a river where sea water mixes with fresh water.
Exclusive Economic Zone	A generally 200-nautical-mile zone declared in August 1994 by Australia in line with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Australia has the right to explore and exploit, and the responsibility to conserve and manage, the living and non-living resources within this area; cf. Australian Fishing Zone.
Exploited	Fished, harvested or put to use.

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).