Legal Aspects of the Collection of Fisheries Data

Table of Contents

by

W.R. Edeson
Senior Legal Officer
Legal Office, FAO

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, December 1999

FAO Fisheries Circular No. 953

FIDI/C953

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Table of Contents

PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THE INTERNATIONAL LAW REGIME

2.1 Internal waters, archipelagic waters and the territorial sea
2.2 The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
2.3 The High seas
2.4 UN Fish Stocks Agreement
2.5 Other International Instruments
2.6 Some General Conclusions

3. THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH FISHERIES DATA IS COLLECTED

4. THE PHRASE “NATIONALITY OF CATCHES”

4.1 The European Community

5. NATIONAL LAWS

6. THE TEST USED BY CWP

ANNEX 1 - Extract from M. Tsamenyi and K. Mfodwo