Regional fishery bodies (RFBs) are intergovernmental bodies through which States cooperate on the management of fisheries in specific regions. Some RFBs have a mandate to adopt measures that are binding on their Members. These bodies are referred to as regional fisheries management organisations or arrangements (RFMO/As) and are a subset of RFBs.

RFMOs have the power to adopt a variety of rules to manage the fishery. They use management tools like catch limits (quota), technical measures, spatial and/or temporal restrictions, and monitoring, control and surveillance activities to ensure compliance with the rules.

Box 1: Examples of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) voluntary instruments providing guidance to the regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) and the regional fisheries

Management Organisations (RFMOs) met at FAO headquarters in Rome to discuss how best to progress the operationalization of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM). This was the second joint tuna RFMO EAFM workshop organized under the ABNJ (Common

Regional cooperation can assist port States and other States that are RFMO members by ensuring that they benefit from information obtained through the implementation of port State measures. The Agreement will, through the duties it places on RFMOs, facilitate and strengthen regional cooperation, including harmonization.

Assembly and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the growing number of RFMOs that have legal competence to adopt binding conservation and management measures for the high seas, and thereby the increasingly comprehensive coverage of the high seas by RFMO Convention Areas.

As a regional fisheries management organization (RFMO), the GFCM aims to achieve maximum sustainable yield (MSY) – the highest possible catch that can be sustained over time while ensuring maximum growth of the exploited stock – as well as to avoid significant adverse impacts on marine ecosystems, while ensuring livelihoods and enhancing ...

A regional fishery management organisation (RFMO) [5] is a type of RFB entrusted with sustainable management of fish stocks in a particular region, or of highly migratory species. RFMOs coalesce through the collaboration of nations demonstrating pronounced fishing interests within specific geographic domains.

Synopsis (short abstract) This paper reviews the current management of tuna fisheries by the five tuna regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs), which focus on the management of target species in the light of international standards and modern expectations for …

2024年9月11日 · 区域渔业管理组织（rfmo）是由在某一区域或高度洄游物种中拥有捕捞利益的国家组成的国际组织。 目前世界上有17个RFMOs，管辖范围覆盖了世界上大约91%的海洋。