Alternative treaty name

Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries ( NAFO ); NAFO

Data entry notes

To contribute to the optimum utilization and rational management and conservation of the fishery resources.; Formerly International Convention for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (ICNAF) run by International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries

URL to text of IEA

http://www.nafo.int/about/frames/convention.html and http://www.oceanlaw.net/texts/nafo.htm

Possible sources (additional)

ECOLEX-2402; RS-XXII:107; SMTFE-2; Fletcher, Burhenne, Rummel-Bulska, Sand, UNEP96, Embree; tre-0970.txt; reg-097.txt

Date IEA was concluded

1978-10-24

Conclusion year

1978

Place IEA was concluded

Ottawa

Date IEA entered into force

1979-01-01

Membership eligibility (multilateral, bilateral, etc)

Multilateral (3 or more governments)

Agreement type level 3

Convention

E (environment) code (agreement is environmental or not)

Environmental

Source for e (environmental) code

Title

Text used for e (environmental) coding

Convention On Future Multilateral Cooperation In The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries

Words used to code as environmental

fish

Lineage

Northwest Atlantic Fisheries

Sequence in lineage

200.000

Secretariat

Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization

Version

2007.10

Inclusion auto-generated

MEA - Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Subject

Species/Fauna/Fish

Category

ENV/FISH