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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 an internal-use only fishery. NASCO has taken measures to eliminate fishing for salmon in international waters by non-NASCO Parties and to improve exchange of surveillance information. There have been no sightings of vessels fishing for salmon in international waters since the early 1990s. 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 and there is increasing use of catch and release in recreational fisheries. Read more... NASCO's Agreement on Adoption of a Precautionary Approach states that, management measures, taking account of uncertainty, should be aimed at maintaining all salmon stocks above their conservation limit, taking into account the best available information, and socio-economic factors. 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... NASCO operates a Tag Return Incentive Scheme to encourage the return of external tags applied to salmon. Read more... 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. In 2009, the Council adopted Guidelines for the Management of Salmon Fisheries to assist jurisdictions in making further progress in implementing NASCO's agreements and guidelines; to provide a basis for and an exchange of information on more consistent approaches to the management of fisheries around the North Atlantic; to assist in preparation of FARs; and to assist in the identification of what additional actions may be required. Read more... Further information: |
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