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About Coastal State Requirements The first edition of legislation on Coastal State Requirements for Foreign Fishing was published in 1981. Revised versions were published in 1983, 1985, 1988, 1993 and 1996. This is the first electronic edition of Coastal State
Requirements which consists of a series of tables summarizing the provisions
of national legislation and of bilateral and multilateral agreements
governing foreign fishing in waters under national jurisdiction. As with the
earlier revisions, it is hoped that the information provided will be of
assistance to law makers and fisheries departments of both industrialized and
developing coastal states in thinking through the many issues involved in
drawing up or revising their policies and legislation. A word of caution is in order, however. While every attempt
has been made to collect reliable and current data, by the very nature of the
task, the information presented in this study may be incomplete and thus
liable to contain errors. Specifically, it should be noted that FAO is not
the depository of the United Nations convention on the Law of the Sea and the
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations
convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the
Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory
Fish Stocks. Therefore, it is suggested that the reader contact the Division for
Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) home page for
further information. The Development Law Service of FAO particularly welcomes
being kept informed of recent developments in national fisheries legislation
and bilateral or multilateral access agreements. |