Straddling Fish Stocks Agreement

Straddling Fish Stocks Agreement
Signed December 4, 1995 - December 4, 1996
Location New York City, United States of America
Effective December 11, 2001[1]
Condition 30 ratifications
Signatories 59
Parties 82[2]

The Straddling Fish Stocks Agreement (formally, 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) is a multilateral treaty created by the United Nations to enhance the cooperative management of fisheries resources that span wide areas, and are of economic and environmental concern to a number of nations. As of September 2014, the treaty had been ratified by 82 parties, which includes 81 states and the European Union.[2]

Straddling stocks are fish stocks that migrate through, or occur in, more than one exclusive economic zone. The Agreement was adopted in 1995, and came into force in 2001.[1]

Highly migratory fish is a term which has its origins in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It refers to fish species which undertake ocean migrations and also have wide geographic distributions, and usually denotes tuna and tuna-like species, shark, marlin and swordfish. Straddling fish stocks are especially vulnerable to overexploitation because of ineffective management regimes and noncompliance by fishing interests.

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  1. 1 2 Overview - Convention & Related Agreements
  2. 1 2 "Chronological lists of ratifications of". Retrieved 2012-07-23.

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