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Management of Salmon Fisheries
NASCO's goal is to promote the diversity and abundance of salmon stocks and maintain all stocks above their conservation limits. The key issues are to:
Regulatory measures agreed by NASCO have greatly reduced the interception of salmon in the distant-water fisheries at West Greenland and around the Faroe Islands. These fisheries now only account for 1-2% of the total catch. There has been no commercial harvest by the Faroe Islands since the early 1990s and the Greenland fishery is currently an internal-use fishery. The Convention requires that conservation and management measures taken by States of Origin be taken into account in establishing regulatory measures. Major reductions in fishing effort and quotas have occurred all around the North Atlantic. Management measures in response to declining abundance have resulted in major reductions in catches. View Catch Statistics... Focus Area Reports (FARs) on the measures being taken by each jurisdiction to implement NASCO's agreements can be accessed from the table on the right. The FARs have been reviewed and the review group's findings are in the reports below. NASCO has taken measures to eliminate fishing for salmon in international waters by non-NASCO Parties. View Protocol for non-NASCO Parties... NASCO has taken steps to improve exchange of information on this issue. View Resolution on Fishing on the High Seas... There have been no sightings of vessels fishing for salmon in international waters since the early 1990s. NASCO has adopted a Minimum Standard for Catch Statistics. Read more... and a Decision Structure providing a basis for more consistent approaches to the management of exploitation Read more... In 2009, the Council adopted Guidelines for the Management of Salmon Fisheries to assist jurisdictions in making further progress in implementing NASCO's agreements. Read more... There is increasing use of catch and release in recreational fisheries and NASCO has developed guidelines detailing best practice. Read more... NASCO operates a Tag Return Incentive Scheme to encourage the return of external tags applied to salmon. Read more... ICES considers that salmon fisheries probably have 'no or only minor influence on the marine ecosystem'. There are concerns about the possible by-catch of Atlantic salmon in fisheries for other pelagic fish species (see the ICES by-catch reports listed below). Further information: |
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