On the issue of areas closure to protect vulnerable marine habitats in the NAFO Regulatory Area By

In the last years the questions of adverse impact of fishery on vulnerable marine habitats in the North-West Atlantic (NWA) have been actively discussed by NAFO. Resolving of these questions becomes urgent in the light of UNGA Resolution which calls on Governments and Regional Fisheries Management O...

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Main Authors: V. I. Vinnichenko, V. V. Sklyar
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.525.1645
http://archive.nafo.int/open/sc/2008/scr08-079.pdf
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Summary:In the last years the questions of adverse impact of fishery on vulnerable marine habitats in the North-West Atlantic (NWA) have been actively discussed by NAFO. Resolving of these questions becomes urgent in the light of UNGA Resolution which calls on Governments and Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMO) to play a substantial role in addressing the impacts of bottom fisheries on vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs).