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The Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas is an agreement that was designed to solve through international cooperation the problems involved in the conservation of living resources of the high seas, considering that because of the development of modern technology some of these resources are in danger of being overexploited. The convention opened for signature on 29 April 1958 and entered into force on 20 March 1966.

Participation

Parties – (39): Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Colombia, Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Finland, France, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela.

Countries that have signed, but not yet ratified – (21): Afghanistan, Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ghana, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Lebanon, Liberia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Panama, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Uruguay.

See also

• Environmental effects of fishing
• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Convention on the High Seas

References

1. ^ "Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas". United Nations. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

• CIA World Factbook, as of 2003 edition
• Indonesian Law #19/1961

External links

• Indonesian Law #19/1961
• Convention of the High Seas (1958) Archived 22 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine
• Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas (1958)

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