The number of signed international agreements related to fisheries management is steadily increasing

IUU fishing has been identified as a major threat to fisheries conservation and marine biodiversity. It can lead to a collapse of a fishery, which in turn may cause adverse consequences for the livelihood of people depending on it.

Norway and Russia share the stocks of cod, haddock and capelin  in the Barents Sea. Close cooperation between the two countries is needed to ensure rational joint management of these fishery resources. Bilateral cooperation in the fisheries sector was first institutionalised in the 1950s in the field of marine research, formalizing collaboration in marine research that already had a 50-yea...

The occasion of the agreement on bilateral fisheries collaboration between Norway and Greenland, signed in September 1991, was based on a common understanding of the need to exclude illegal unregulated fishery in each country`s exclusive economic zone. Under the agreement, vessels from Norway and Greenland are permitted to fish in one another`s exclusive economic zone. The scope of the fishing ...