Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
Regional
fisheries
management
convention
Mandate and provisions
Conservation approaches
and tools
Ongoing efforts
for management
of habitats and
non-target
species
North-East
Atlantic Fisheries
(NEAF)
area, providing sustainable
economic, environmental,
and social benefits
other international
agreements
- Ecosystem approach newly
incorporated
- By-catch
measures
North Atlantic
Salmon
Conservation
Organization
(NASCO)
Conservation, restoration,
enhancement, and rational
management of salmon
stocks. taking into account
the best scientific evidence
available
- Only covers salmon stocks
(prohibits fishing of these on
the high seas of the
convention area)
- Ecosystem and
precautionary approaches
incorporated
International
Convention for
the Conservation
of Atlantic Tunas
(ICCAT)
To maintain populations of
tuna and tuna-like fishes
found in the Atlantic Ocean
at levels which permit the
maximum sustainable catch
for food and other purposes
- Covers 30 tuna and
tuna-like fishes
- No reference to ecosystem
or precautionary approach,
and no direct mandate to
safeguard marine ecosystems
None, except
requirement to
collect data on
shark by-catch
Convention on the
Future of
Multilateral
Cooperation in the
Northwest
Atlantic Fisheries
(NAFO)
Optimum utilization, rational
management, and
conservation of fishery
resources of NAFO
convention area
- Covers straddling fish
stocks and discrete high seas
fish stocks (not salmon, tuna,
marlins, and whales)
-No direct mandate to
safeguard marine ecosystems
- Bottom fishing
closures in areas
of seamounts,
coral, and sponge
habitat
- Some by-catch
measures
Convention on the
Conservation and
Management of
Fishery Resources
in the Southeast
To ensure the long-term
conservation and sustainable
use of fishery resources on
the high seas, other than
highly migratory stocks,
- Ecosystem approach
incorporated
- Does not regulate highly
migratory stocks (those not
- Closure of areas
from fishing
activity
