University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities 2004 The international legal regime for fisheries management Ben M. Tsamenyi University of Wollongong,
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[email protected] The international legal regime for fisheries management Keywords fisheries, egime,r management, legal, international Disciplines Arts and Humanities | Law Publication Details B. M. Tsamenyi, S. Rajkumar & L. Manarangi-Trott, 'The international legal regime for fisheries management' (Paper presented at the UNEP Workshop on Fisheries Subsidies and Sustainable Fisheries Management, UNEP Workshop on Fisheries Subsidies and Sustainable Fisheries Management, This conference paper is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/189 THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REGIME FOR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT Martin Tsamenyi*, Lara Manarangi-Trott** & Shilpa Rajkumar*** INTRODUCTION The international response to the growing depletion of the world’s fisheries stocks and the degradation of their habitats has been through the elaboration and adoption of four classes of instruments. First, globally binding fisheries treaties were adopted to address the conservation and management of fish stocks, particularly straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks.