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]
NEAFC was founded in 1980 and established by the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Atlantic Fisheries.[2]
It replaced an earlier commission by the same name established by the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention of 24 January 1959.
References
- ↑ "North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission". Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ↑ "Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Atlantic Fisheries (NEAFC Convention)". Date enacted: 1980-11-18. In force: 1982-03-17. Check date values in:
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- 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. 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)
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