Agreement Establishing a Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (1985) as amended in 1993

• Jurisdiction: South Africa
• Pages: 143-149
• Citation: 2017 JOLGA 143
• Author: None
• Date: 22 May 2019
• Published date: 22 May 2019

143

AGReeMent estABLIsHInG

A sUB-ReGIonAL FIsHeRIes

CoMMIssIon

The Governments of:

• the Republic of Cape Verde,

• the Republic of The Gambia,

• the Republic of Guinea,

• the Republic of Guinea-Bissau,

• the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, and

• the Republic of Senegal, represented by their Ministers of

Fisheries

AWARE of the common problems faced by countries in the sub-

region in their struggle for development and cognisant of the

potential in the rational exploitation of fisheries resources to

develop their economies and meet the nutritional needs of their

populations;

HIGHLIGHTING the need for riparian countries to cooperate and

work towards harmonising their policies for the preservation,

conservation and management of fisheries resources in the sub-

region and the need to cooperate towards the development of

their national fishing industries;

RECALLING work already done by the previous meetings in the

framework of cooperation in fisheries and the transitory nature

of the ‘Joint Statement’ signed on 12 June 1980 in Nouakchott;

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

PART I – GENERAL PROVISIONS

ESTABLISHMENT, OBJECTIVES, HEADQUARTERS

Article 1

There is hereby established a Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission

which shall be composed of the Governments of the Republic of

Cape Verde, the Republic of The Gambia, the Republic of Guinea,

the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania

and the Republic of Senegal. The Commission shall have legal

personality and hereto can sue and be sued.

2017 JOLG 143

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