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18th Apr 13

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NEAFC

The North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) is an international organisation established under the Convention on Future Multilateral Co-operation in the North East Atlantic Fisheries, which entered into force on 17 March 1982.

This Convention replaced the original North East Atlantic Fisheries Convention of 1959 (which operated from 1963), which in turn had replaced the 1946 Convention for the Regulation of Meshes and Fishing Nets and the Size Limits of Fish. The earliest convention can be traced back to the period between the world wars in the 1930s, when several conferences were held to address the issue of the rational exploitation of fish resources in the north-east Atlantic. However, the modern rebirth of NEAFC is as a result of the withdrawal of the Community Member States as individual members of the 1963 organisation and the general extension in 1977 of fishery limits to 200 miles.

NEAFC members are: Denmark, the EU, Iceland, Norway and Russia.

Click here for a link to the NEAFC website.

documents (7)
events (1)
news (37)
presentations (1)

documents

The Implementation of UN Resolution 61/105 in the Management of Deep-Sea Fisheries on the High Seas
09/11/2009
This report finds that the measures taken to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems and deep-sea species on the high seas in the North Atlantic are at b ...
Author: International Programme on the State of the Ocean (Dr Alex David Rogers & Matthew Gianni)

Recommendations for the Meeting of the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission 9-13 November 2009
09/11/2009
In this briefing the authors set out recommendations on how the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission can better implement UN GA Resolution 61/105 ...
Author: WWF, Seas at Risk & The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

Information on Experience Gained on Combating IUU fishing in the NEAFC Area
05/03/2009
This is a note prepared by the NEAFC Secretariat for the 28th Session of FAO COFI in Rome 2-6 March 2009. It includes information on two NEAFC tools t ...
Author: NEAFC

Study and Analysis of the Status of IUU Fishing in the SADC Region and an Estimate of the Economic, Social and Biological Impacts
01/05/2008
The study explores and helps to quantify the magnitude and types of Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing in the Southern African Developm ...
Author: Stop Illegal Fishing

Recent Results in Combating IUU Fishing Based on the NEAFC Scheme
28/06/2007
This is a note from NEAFC on the success of the RFMO‘s Scheme of Control and Enforcement, which has resulted in around 15 IUU vessels out of 20 o ...
Author: North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)

12th North Atlantic Fisheries Ministers Conference: Communiqu
23/06/2007
This is a brief note from the NEAFC conference held in Narsaq, Greenland 20-23 June 2007. It notes the real progress made in the continuing fight agai ...
Author: North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)

Caught RED-handed: Daylight Robbery on the High Seas
12/05/2006
This paper exposes what Greenpeace calls the ‘daylight robbery‘ taking place across the seas and outlines why regional management is not suf ...
Author: Greenpeace

events

26th Annual Meeting of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
12/11/2007
The meeting is taking place from 12-16 November 2007. Of particular interest is the session will be dedicated to the NEAFC Scheme of Control and Enfor

news

presentations

Closing the Net: NEAFC and IUU Fisheries
09/05/2007

Author:
Joao Neves, NEAFC

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