High Seas Fisheries Management under the Convention on the Law of the Sea

The Law of the Sea: Progress and Prospects

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gjerde, Kristina M ^a  

^a IUCN The World Conservation Union ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Fish stocks; Fisheries management; High seas; Illegal fishing; Overfishing; Regional fisheries management; United Nations Convention; Unregulated fishing; Unreported fishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951548949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199299614.003.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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