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Oceans and Law of the Sea Pages
This is the main source on the UN site for fisheries information. As well as basic information on the LOS Convention and related instruments (including the UN Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Agreement) there are a number of General Assembly Resolutions on fisheries matters and other official documents, readable on-line. Links to specific items on these pages are contained on later pages. What follows is an overview of the principal sections:
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Convention on the Law of the Sea The text and other information on the Convention. For more details, see Part 2. |
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Straddling
and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Agreement Text and information in the UN Fish Stocks Agreement. For more details, see Part 3. |
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Oceans
and the Law of the Sea in the General Assembly Includes links to Reports of the Secretary-General and General Assembly Resolutions and information on the United Nations Informal Open-ended Consultative Process. |
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Settlement of Disputes Overview of the dispute settlement mechanism of the Convention, including information and documents from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. For more details, see Part 9. |
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Meetings
of States Parties to the Convention Including Documents and Reports. |
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Maritime
space - legislation and treaties database Beginnings of a useful database containing national legislation and (later) treaties concerning maritime claims and boundary delimitation. For details, see Part 8/2. |
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Publications |
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Links relevant to oceans and the law of the sea |
Resolutions Index
A gopher index to a collection of General Assembly Resolutions going back to 1981. They are not all here (and several fisheries ones are missing), but there are some on this list that are not linked from the Oceans and the Law of the Sea pages.
OTHER RELEVANT UN SPECIALIZED AGENCIES AND BODIES
For a full list of UN organizations, including many with home pages on the Web, see the United Nations System of Organizations site.
Food & Agriculture Organization |
The FAO Fisheries pages contains a lot of useful information relating to international fisheries law. It is not always the easiest site to navigate, but there is a well set-out Site Map. Some of the more useful parts (from a legal/management perspective) are described below, but this is only a small part of what is available in total. Further links to the FAO site are contained on later pages according to particular issues.
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International Agreements This section contains the texts of FAO-connected international agreements and instruments, such as the 1999 Rome Declaration on the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, and a link to the useful directory of Multilateral treaties deposited with the Director-General of FAO. There is a separate page for the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and Compliance Agreement (see further on these Part 2). |
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Committee on Fisheries (COFI)
Information on COFI and its Twenty-Third Session (February 1999), including the Report of the Session and the Meeting documents of the Session. Similar information is available for the 22nd session (March 1997). |
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Other meetings
Basic information (dates, agendas, etc.) on the meetings of past and forthcoming meetings of FAO and its regional fisheries bodies is available from this page. The reports of meetings and other documents are reproduced for some regional bodies (for details, see International Organizations). On a separate page, there is also a section on FAO Consultations, providing reports and other documentation from some recent FAO technical consultations. |
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Regional Bodies This section of the FAO site consists of basic information on the FAO's regional bodies, together with on-line reproductions of recent meeting reports and documents for a small selection (see next part for further information). |
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Management
Links to a number of useful items, most of which are reproduced elsewhere in this Pathfinder. |
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Resources
Selection of information on world fisheries resources, including links to a number of FAO Fisheries Circulars on fisheries and aquaculture. There is also a link to FAO's Species Identification and Data Program, which consists of a world map, divided into FAO Fishing Areas, leading to a basic overview of each region (major species, major fishing countries, status of resources, etc.) accessible by clicking on the relevant part of the map. |
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Production Various information on recent and projected world fish and aquaculture production. Includes Summary Tables of Fishery Statistics and various other material. |
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Trade Various information on fisheries trade. See Part 8/3 for further details |
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Environment |
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Socio-Economics |
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Statistics |
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Fishery Country Profiles
The FAO's Fishery Country Profiles are useful summaries of recent activities and trends in fisheries and aquaculture for a particular country and include demographic, economic and fishery data, as well as a description on the relevant country's fishing industry and activities. Printed versions of the Profiles exist for over 140 countries and these are now gradually being made available on-line. A large number are already available: links to individual countries are provided on Part 10 of this Pathfinder. |
