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DISTANT WATER FISHING [8 records]

Record 1 2023-06-15

English

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

Any state whose flagged vessels fish in [a] fishery management area under the terms of an access agreement.

CONT

... to date, the vast majority of public fishing access agreements... do not mention any quotas, and at best, refer to a "limit of reference"(which can be exceeded for an additional payment, without any links to management targets, such as [maximum sustainable yield], or stock status). This creates a loophole that both distant-water fishing countries and host countries use to maximize either their catch or their rent, sometimes at the expense of the [marine] resource's health...

Key term(s)
  • distant water fishing country

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
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Record 2 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 3 2023-05-31

English

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

... recommendations [were proposed] to improve the management of the [country’s] DWF fleet and underscore the need for more effective regional and global action, especially in monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) and through measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

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
CONT

Es necesaria una flota pesquera de altura para acceder a nuevos caladeros.

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Record 4 2022-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • International Bodies (Intl. Law)
  • Law of the Sea
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

An RFMO—short for regional fisheries management organization—is an international body made up of countries that share a practical [or] financial interest in managing and conserving fish stocks in a particular region. These include coastal states, whose waters are home to at least part of an identified fish stock, and "distant water fishing nations"(DWFN), whose fleets travel to areas where a fish stock is found.

Key term(s)
  • regional fisheries management organisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Organismes internationaux (Droit)
  • Droit de la mer
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

Une organisation régionale de gestion des pêches est une organisation intergouvernementale [...] dans laquelle les États et d'autres entités coopèrent, afin de développer et de mettre en œuvre des mesures de conservation et de gestion des pêches [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 2022-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

... the experts noted that the distant water fishing operations were beset by the parallel impacts of rising costs, especially for fuel, and of the new regime. Distant water fleets were in decline. Fish imports in distant-water fishing States... were rising[;] efforts were being made to increase the output from their own 200-mile zones, and there was some shift in consumption patterns away from the products traditionally supplied by distant water operations.

OBS

Fishing on the high seas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

[...] les experts notent que les opérations de pêche hauturière ont été frappées par les impacts parallèles de l'accroissement des coûts (notamment des carburants) et du nouveau régime. Les flottilles de pêche hauturière sont en déclin. Les importations de poisson dans les États exploitant les eaux lointaines sont croissantes[;] des efforts sont en cours pour augmenter la production de leurs propres zones de 200 milles[,] et les schémas de consommation ont évolué au détriment des produits traditionnellement fournis par des opérations de pêche hauturière.

OBS

[Pêche] en haute mer.

Spanish

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Record 6 2022-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Since many high seas fishing vessels are also distant water fishing vessels that operate in high seas areas that are not adjacent to the exclusive economic zone of the flag state, flag state agencies must travel long distances to supervise registered vessels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Types de bateaux
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 7 2022-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Commercial Fishing
OBS

Distant water fishing vessels or fishing vessels flying a foreign flag operating within the fishing zone of a coastal state.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Types de bateaux
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 8 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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