North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission

The North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) is a regional fisheries management organization that maintains controls over fishing and fishing-related acts in the North East Atlantic Ocean. NEAFC 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."^[1] The area covered by the NEAFC Convention stretches from the southern tip of Greenland, east to the Barents Sea, and south to Portugal.^[2]

NEAFC Regulatory Area

NEAFC was founded in 1980 and established by the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Atlantic Fisheries.^[3]

It replaced an earlier commission by the same name established by the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention of 24 January 1959.

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

Co-operating Non-Contracting Parties[]

• Bahamas^[6]
• Canada
• Curacao
• New Zealand
• Panama

References[]

• 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

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