United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks

Download or read book United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks written by Jean-Pierre Lévy and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1996-07-25 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably the best record of the conference available now or in the future, because financial constraints prevented the UN Secretariat from issuing summary verbatim records. The conference was called for at the 1992 environmental conference in Rio to address problems arising from fishing fleets traveling far from depleted fisheries near home in pursuit of fish, and the increasing adoption of 200-mile economic zones by countries. Includes selected documents from the six sessions between April 1993 and August 1995, the agreement for the implementation of the provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the conservation and management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks, the final act of the conference, a list of documents, and a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR