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Book (series)The state of world highly migratory, straddling and other high seas fishery resources and associated species 2006
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No results found.This document describes highly migratory fish stocks, straddling fish stocks, and stocks of other high seas fishery resources and the fisheries for them, including information on their state of exploitation. Fisheries for highly migratory species are important in all oceans and semi-enclosed seas, except for polar regions. Fisheries for straddling fish stocks are much more localized, primarily occurring in a few regions where continental shelves extend beyond the 200 miles Exclusive Economic Zon e while most fisheries for other high seas fishery resources are deep-water fisheries. Formal assessments are lacking for most of the stocks examined. Nevertheless, the compilation of available assessments and FAO’s analyses indicate that about 30 percent of the stocks of highly migratory tuna and tuna-like species, more than 50 percent of the highly migratory oceanic sharks and nearly two-thirds of the straddling stocks and the stocks of other high seas fishery resources are overexploited or de pleted. The stocks concerned represent only a small fraction of the world fishery resources, but are key indicators of the state of an overwhelming part of the ocean ecosystem which appears to be more overexploited than EEZs. The scarcity of the information available and the short time elapsed since the entering into force of the UN Fish Stock Agreement does not allow for a realistic assessment of the impact it may have had on the state of the various fish stocks being exploited in the high seas . Some key issues on which progress and improvements are needed are addressed, including those regarding fisheries in the high seas for resources other than straddling stocks and highly migratory species. -
Book (series)FAO species catalogue. Vol. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes 1984
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No results found.This is the fourth in the FAO series of worldwide annotated and illustrated catalogues of major groups of organisms that enter marine fisheries. The present volume includes 342 shark species belonging to 8 orders and 31 families. It provides a comprehensive and illustrated key to all orders and families and sharks, with a glossary of technical terms and measurements. Within each family are given individual accounts of species which include drawings, scientific and vernacular names, information n on habitat, biology, and fisheries, and a distribution; map for most families there is also a key to genera. The work is fully indexed and there is ample reference to pertinent literature. -
Book (series)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 2000
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No results found.Pacta tertiis is a rather cryptic description of a basic rule of customary international law which dates back to Roman law, and which reads in full pacta tertiis nec nocent nec prosunt. With respect to treaty law, this rule was codified in the Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969, which states that treaties do not “create either obligations or rights for a third State without its consent”. This rule seems to be generally accepted today.
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