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] The area covered by the NEAFC Convention stretches from the southern tip of Greenland, east to the Barents Sea, and south to Portugal. ^[2]

NEAFC Regulatory Area

NEAFC was founded in 1980 and established by the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Atlantic Fisheries.^[3]

It replaced an earlier commission by the same name established by the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention of 24 January 1959.

Contracting Parties

• Denmark (in respect of the Faroe Islands & Greenland) ^[4]
• European Union
• Iceland
• Norway
• Russian Federation

Co-operating Non-Contracting Parties

• Bahamas ^[5]
• Canada
• Liberia
• New Zealand
• St Kitts and Nevis

References

1. "North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission". Retrieved 26 June 2013.
2. "About North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission". Retrieved 27 March 2016.
3. "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: |date= (help)
4. "About". NEAFC. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
5. "About". NEAFC. Retrieved 27 March 2016.

• 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)

External links

• Official website