North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission

The North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) is a general regional fishery management organisation that maintains controls over fishing and fishing-related acts in the North Sea, the Irish Sea, the Nordic Seas, the Barents Sea, the White Sea and the remainder of the northeast Atlantic Ocean, except for the Baltic Sea and the Danish straits.

NEAFC Regulatory Area

NEAFC was founded in 1980 and established by the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Atlantic Fisheries.^[1] It replaced an earlier commission by the same name established by the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention of 24 January 1959. It 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."^[2] The area covered by the NEAFC Convention stretches from the southern tip of Greenland, east to the Barents Sea, and south to Portugal.^[3] However, as an exception, the Baltic Sea and the Danish straits have been excluded from NEAFC jurisdiction, being managed instead directly by EU and Russia, in line with a bilateral general regional fishery management arrangement.

United Kingdom fishing will be regulated by the commission post Brexit.^[4]

Contracting Parties

• Denmark (in respect of the Faroe Islands & Greenland) ^[5]
• European Union
• Iceland
• Norway
• Russian Federation
• United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies

Co-operating Non-Contracting Parties

• Bahamas^[6]
• Canada^[7]
• Panama

References

1. "Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Atlantic Fisheries (NEAFC Convention)". University of Oslo. Date enacted: 1980-11-18. In force: 1982-03-17
2. "North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission". Retrieved 26 June 2013.
3. "About North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission". Retrieved 27 March 2016.
4. Connelly, Tony (7 December 2020). "Deep divisions in post-Brexit fisheries talks". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
5. "About". NEAFC. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
6. "About". NEAFC. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
7. "About". NEAFC. Retrieved 21 June 2022.

• 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 (ed.). 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