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Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Alexis J. Ortiz*
Affiliation:
U.S. Department of State

Abstract

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Type
International Legal Materials
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016 

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Footnotes

*

While the United States is a party to the Agreement, the views expressed in this Note are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. government.

References

Endnotes

1 Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, opened for signature Nov. 22, 2009, 129 Stat. 664 (entered into force June 5, 2016) [hereinafter PSMA], available at http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/legal/docs/037se.pdf.

2 Constitution of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, art. XIV, ¶ 1, Oct. 16, 1945, 60 Stat. 1886.

3 Towards the Quantification of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in the Pacific Islands Region, MRAG Asia Pacific (2016), available at http://www.ffa.int/files/FFA%20Quantifying%20IUU%20Report%20-%20Final.pdf.

4 See PSMA, supra note 1, art. 1(e); Food & Agric. Org. of the UN, International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (2001) [hereinafter IPOA], available at ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/y1224e/y1224e00.pdf.

5 IPOA, supra note 4, ¶ 3.1.

6 Id. ¶ 3.2.

7 Id. ¶ 3.3.

8 PSMA, supra note 1, arts. 7, 8, Annex A.

9 Id. arts. 9, 10.

10 Id. art. 11.

11 Id. arts. 12, 13.

12 See, e.g., id. arts. 6, 15, 16.

13 Id. art. 21(1).

14 Id. art. 21(4).

15 Id. art. 21(6).

16 Food & Agric. Org. of the UN, New Era Beckons with Implementation of Illegal Fishing Treaty (July 11, 2016), http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/424284/icode.