Alternative treaty name

FFA

Data entry notes

To harmonize fishery management policies; to facilitate cooperation in surveillance and enforcement, processing, marketing and relations with third countries; to arrange for reciprocal access by member countries to their respective 200-mile zones. "This Convention is not subject to ratification and shall enter into force 30 days following the eighth signature. Thereafter it shall enter into force for any signing or acceding state thirty days after signature or the receipt by the depositary of an instrument of accession."

URL to text of IEA

http://svc98.bne147v.server-web.com/docs/convention.1979.pdf

Possible sources (additional)

ECOLEX-2630; CIESIN, Burhenne, Sand

Date IEA was adopted

1979-07-10

Adoption year

1979

Place IEA was adopted

Honiara

Date IEA entered into force

1979-08-09

Membership eligibility (multilateral, bilateral, etc)

Multilateral (3 or more governments)

Agreement type level 3

Convention

Source for e (environmental) code

Title

Text used for e (environmental) coding

South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency Convention

Words used to code as environmental

fish/south pacific

Lineage

Pacific Island Fisheries

Sequence in lineage

100.000

Secretariat

South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency

Version

2007.10

Inclusion auto-generated

MEA - Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Subject

Fish and fisheries