UN
Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Agreement
Text and summary on this website.
UN
Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Agreement (UNDOALOS)
Information and documents on the UN website. Includes:
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The Secretary-General Reports on
the Agreement are available on the UN website. (Information on its
implementation since 1998 is contained in the Secretary-General's Law of the Sea Reports:
see Page 2).
The General Assembly Resolutions on
the Agreement are also available:
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Resolution 47/192 (1992)
establishing the Conference
On the UNDP gopher site.
A number of basic Conference
documents are available on the UN's Oceans and Law
of the Sea site. Regrettably none of the documents sponsored by the Conference
participants are available, however. Three categories of documents are offered:
Main documents of the
Conference
Reports of the Chairman on
the sessions of the Conference
Opening and Closing
Statements by the Chairman to the sessions of the
Conference
The UN Conference on Straddling Fish
Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
An excellent source of information on the Conference is this page provided by the Institute of Sustainable Development. Among other things,
this page contains links to the Earth Negotiation Bulletin's summaries of the first four
substantive sessions, as well as to the ENB's daily bulletins for the final session. The full volume (55 issues) of the
Earth Negotiation Bulletin on the Conference is available at a different location,
providing daily bulletins and summaries from all sessions.
DFO Backgrounder: UN
Conference
Background report from the Canadian DFO, outlining Canada's position and role in the
negotiations.
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The Agreement on High Seas
Fishing
A background report looking at the history of the Fish Stocks Agreement since UNCED and
containing an overview of the Agreement and its implementation one year after its
adoption. Published by the UN Department of Public Information in February 1997.
Global overview of
Straddling and Highly Migratory fish Stocks
Very brief overview from the DFO Backgrounder series.
The
Management of High Seas Fishery Resources and the Implementation of the U.N.
Fish Stocks Agreement of 1995: Problems and Prospects
[pdf]
Paper presented at the IIFET 2000 Conference by Trond
Bjorndal and Gordon
Munro.
Pacta
Tertiis and the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of
the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982
relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and
Highly Migratory Fish Stocks [pdf]
Paper by Erik
Franckx, FAO Legal Paper On-Line, No. 8 (June 2000)
The Impact of Article 7(2) of the Fish Stocks Agreement on the Formulation of Conservation and Management Measures for Straddling
Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks [pdf]
Paper by Alex G Oude Elferink, from the FAO Legal Papers On-Line series.
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