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Part index This is the first of several parts dealing with some various issues in international fisheries law. This part deals with transboundary fish stocks and has been split into four pages. This page contains links to information on the UN Fish Stocks Agreement and other general information, while the other pages deal, respectively, with regional issues concerning straddling stocks, highly migratory stocks and anadromous stocks.
 
 
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UN Fish Stocks Agreement

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: 

bullet Status of the Agreement
bullet Declarations made upon ratification/accession
bullet Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (see below)

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Implementation

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).

bullet 1999 Report: A/54/461  [pdf]
bullet 1997 Report: A/52/555
bullet 1996 Report: A/51/383
bullet 1995 Report: A/50/550
bullet 1994 Report: A/49/522  [pdf]
bullet 1993 Report: A/48/479; A/48/479 Corr. 1  [pdf]

The General Assembly Resolutions on the Agreement are also available:

bullet 1999 Resolution A/54/32
bullet 1997 Resolution A/52/28
bullet 1996 Resolution A/RES/51/35
bullet 1995 Resolution A/RES/50/24

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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

bullet Agenda of the Conference: A/CONF.164/5
bullet Final Act of the Conference: A/CONF.164/38
bullet List of signatories of the Final Act

Reports of the Chairman on the sessions of the Conference

bullet Report of the first (organizational session): A/CONF.164/9
bullet Report of the second session: A/CONF.164/16
bullet Report of the third session: A/CONF.164/20
bullet Report of the fourth session: A/CONF.164/25
bullet Report of the fifth session: A/CONF.164/29
bullet Report of the sixth session: A/CONF.164/36

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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Miscellaneous

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.

Literature on-line

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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Straddling stocks

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Highly migratory stocks

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Anadromous stocks

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