Fact Sheets and Features - International Fisheries

Overview

• Overfishing and Food Security
• The Grand Banks and the Flemish Cap

Monitoring, Control and Surveillance

• International Operation Nets Illegal Fishing in the North Pacific
• Addressing IUU Fishing in the NAFO Regulatory Area
• New Port State Measures at NAFO
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada Air Surveillance Program
• The Importance of Vessel Monitoring Systems

Regional Fisheries Management Organizations, Governance and Diplomacy

• Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
• NAFO Convention Amendments
• Canada Key Contributor in Development of Best Practices for Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
• Recommended Best Practices for Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
  A Model RFMO
• Pacific Salmon and the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission
• Canada and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
• Canada Brings Positive Message of Sustainable Fisheries to International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna
• Canada and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
  Bluefin Tuna Management in Atlantic Canada
• Pacific Albacore Tuna Management in Canada
• Sustainable Management Of Canadian Swordfish Fishery
• Canada and the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization
• Canada and the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
  
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Code of Conduct for Responsible Fishing Operations
  
• United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement

Science

• Canada’s Bluefin Tuna Live-Release Project First in the World
• Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Deep Sea
• Seamounts, Cold-Water Corals, Hydrothermal Vents & Sponges
• Multinational Research of the Deep Sea off Canada’s East Coast
• Canada’s Progress: Protecting Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Deep Sea
• The Role of Science in Canada’s Sustainable Bluefin Tuna Fishery
• Science in Support of Protecting High Seas Marine Habitat and Communities
• Canadian Shark Survey Aims to Protect Species From Overfishing
• Canada’s Contribution to the Salmon At Sea Program and other Collaborative Atlantic Salmon Science Initiatives
• SALSEA – Collaborative Science to Help Nurture Atlantic Salmon
• Canada and Spain – Collaborative Marine Science Initiative