Tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organization
Intergovernmental organizations that carry out data collection, scientific monitoring, and management of tuna and tuna-like resources. There are five tuna RFMOs.
See also CCSBT, IATTC, ICCAT, IOTC and WCPFC.
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization
Scientific Committee (as in an RFMO).
Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
International governing organizations formed by member nations or countries that share practical and/or financial fishing interests in a particular region of international waters or of highly migratory species. These include coastal states, whose waters are home to at least part of an identified fish stock, and distant water fishing nations (DWFNs), whose fleets travel to areas where a fish stock is found. RFMOs are dedicated to the sustainable management of fishery resources, and most of them have management powers—such as setting catch and fishing effort limits, technical measures, and control obligations.
See also T-RFMO, RVR, IUU, Compliance, TAE, TAC, MCS and CMMs.
Regional vessel register
Lists of authorized fishing vessels maintained by RFMOs.
Consolidated List of Authorized Vessels
A combined list of all vessels authorized to fish in the T‑RFMOs.
Commission Members, Cooperating Non‑Members, and Participating Territories of the WCPFC
See CPCs for other RFMOs.
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
See also T-RFMO.
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
Convention area
The specific area of competence of an RFMO.
