AGREEMENT to prevent unregulated high seas fisheries in the Central Arctic OceanAgreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean • March 15th, 2019
RECOGNIZING that until recently ice has generally covered the high seas portion of the central Arctic Ocean on a year- round basis, which has made fishing in those waters impossible, but that ice coverage in that area has diminished in recent years;
THE AGREEMENT TO PREVENT UNREGULATED HIGH SEAS FISHERIES IN THE CENTRAL ARCTIC OCEAN: A COMMENTARYAgreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean • September 25th, 2021
Although the Arctic Ocean is usually listed among the relatively few remaining areas of the world ocean not yet under the authority of any regional fisheries management organisation (RFMO),1 this is not strictly true, as the writ of the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) runs all the way to the North Pole in the sector between 42 W and 51 E.2 Nonetheless, NEAFC has never made use of its regulatory competence to institute any measures on fishing in the Arctic part of this area, and work has been undertaken in recent years to fill the spatial gap in regulatory coverage of the Arctic ocean as a whole. Thus it was that in June 2018 a near-final text of a treaty styled Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean was published in English, by one of the negotiating parties, the European Union (EU), as an annex to an instrument laid before the European Council seeking its authorisation for EU to sign the treaty.3
036370/EU XXVI. GPAgreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean • September 27th, 2018
to the Proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Union, of the Agreement to prevent unregulated high seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic OceanAgreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean • June 12th, 2018
Recognizing that until recently ice has generally covered the high seas portion of the central Arctic Ocean on a year-round basis, which has made fishing in those waters impossible, but that ice coverage in that area has diminished in recent years;
Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic OceanAgreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean • October 30th, 2018
On 3 October 2018, the five Arctic Ocean coastal States (Canada, Denmark (acting on behalf of Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Norway, Russia, and the United States – the “A5”) together with China, the European Union (EU), Iceland, Japan, and South Korea (which together with the A5 form the so-called ‘A5+5’) signed the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean (CAOF Agreement or CAOFA) in Ilulissat, Greenland.
