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| Agreement Creating the Eastern Pacific Tuna Fishing Organization | ||||||
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Status
of agreement
| Basic information |
| Date of adoption | 21 July 1989 |
| Place of adoption | Lima, Peru |
| Entry into force |
Not in force |
| Authentic text(s) | English, Spanish |
| Summary of agreement |
The Agreement Creating the Eastern Pacific Tuna Fishing Organization was signed by Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru on 21 July 1989. It was the second of two regional agreements adopted during the 1980s concerning regional management of tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (the other being the Eastern Pacific Ocean Tuna Fishing Agreement, adopted in 1983) and, like that other agreement, never entered into force and was never fully applied by its signatories.
The main objectives of the Agreement were: (i) to achieve the conservation, protection and optimum utilization of the highly migratory species regulated under the Agreement (which included yellowfin, skipjack, northern bluefin, southern bluefin, albacore and bigeye tunas); and (ii) to provide training, the transfer of technology and assistance with development of fishing capacity and infrastructure of disadvantaged Latin American Eastern Pacific coastal States. In order to implement these objectives, the agreement provided for the establishment of an Eastern Pacific Tuna Fishing Organization. The agreement provided an extensive list of functions for the Organization, including establishing the maximum permissible global annual quota of catch for each species covered by the agreement, the establishment of annual guidelines fixing open and closed fishing seasons for species requiring conservation measures, determining the allowable incidental fishing levels and issuing fishing licences for fishing on the high seas.