International Guidelines: Management of Deep-sea Fisheries in the High Seas

摘要

On 29 August 2008, an FAO Technical Consultation on International Guidelines for the Management of Deepsea Fisheries in the High Seas (Technical Consultation), comprising representatives of 69 countries, the European Community, the Faroe Islands, and14 inter-governmental organisations (IGOs) and non-governmental associtions (NGOs), unanimously adopted the much-awaited International Guidelines for the Management of Deep-sea Fisheries in the High Seas (the Guidelines). These Guidelines are thought ofas a breakthrough, in integrating both environmental and fisheries management concerns in one instrument. Their adoption was a culmination of events initiated in response to requests of the FAO Committee on Fisheries(COFI) and the invitation by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in Resolution 61/105, which called onFAO to undertake further work on the management of deep-sea fisheries in the high seas. The work was initiallylaunched in 2005 and further promoted through a continued call for such work, by the COFI in March 2007.