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distant water fishing [2 records]

Record 1 2023-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Law of the Sea
  • Environmental Management
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Distant-water fishing, that is, fishing in areas far removed from a country's domestic waters, existed well before the 19th century industrialization with, for example, Europeans fishing for Atlantic cod ... off Newfoundland ... Increasing competition between domestic and foreign fishing vessels for national fisheries resources was one of the motivations behind the series of international negotiations in the 1970s and 1980s, leading to the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Droit de la mer
  • Gestion environnementale
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Colaboración con la FAO
  • Derecho del mar
  • Gestión del medio ambiente
  • Pesca comercial
DEF

Pesca que se efectúa en alta mar.

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Record 2 2020-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
DEF

The activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Pesca comercial
CONT

La pesquería de alta mar se considera generalmente como pesca de fondo que captura especies que viven bajo los 400 m de profundidad en la plataforma continental, montes, dorsales, mesetas y otras características submarinas. Con las actuales tecnologías, esta pesquería puede llegar hasta aproximadamente los 2.000 m de profundidad.

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