North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission
The North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) is a regional fisheries management organization that maintains controls over fishing and fishing-related acts in the North East Atlantic Ocean. NEAFC states that its objective is "to ensure the long-term conservation and optimum utilization of the fishery resources in its Convention Area, providing sustainable economic, environmental and social benefits."[1] The area covered by the NEAFC Convention stretches from the southern tip of Greenland, east to the Barents Sea, and south to Portugal.[2]
NEAFC was founded in 1980 and established by the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Atlantic Fisheries.[3]
It replaced an earlier commission by the same name established by the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention of 24 January 1959.
Contracting Parties
- Denmark (in respect of the Faroe Islands & Greenland) [4]
- European Union
- Iceland
- Norway
- Russian Federation
Co-operating Non-Contracting Parties
- Bahamas [5]
- Canada
- Liberia
- New Zealand
- St Kitts and Nevis
References
- "North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission". Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- "About North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission". Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- "Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Atlantic Fisheries (NEAFC Convention)". University of Oslo.
Date enacted: 1980-11-18. In force: 1982-03-17
- "About". NEAFC. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- "About". NEAFC. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- Robin R. Churchill (2001). "8 Managing Straddling Fish Stocks in the North-East Atlantic: A Multiplicity of Instruments and Regime Linkages - but How Effective a Management?". In Olav Schram Stokke (ed.). Governing High Seas Fisheries: The Interplay of Global and Regional Regimes. Oxford University Press. p. 238. ISBN 0-19-829949-4.
- "4 Modernising the Northeast Atlantic Fisheries Commission". Strengthening Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (PDF). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2009. p. 67., ISBN 978-92-64-07331-9 (print), ISBN 978-92-64-07332-6 (PDF)