Sustainable Development and High Seas Fisheries

Abstract

This article examines the role of the concept of sustainable development in the legal regime governing the exploitation of the natural resources of the oceans, particularly fisheries on the high seas. General documents on sustainable development and legal instruments on high seas fisheries are analyzed in order to see in which way they refer to each other and whether they provide a sufficiently comprehensive framework to ensure the sustainable management of fisheries in the high seas.

Keywords

• sustainable development
• oceans
• law of the sea
• United Nations
• General Assembly
• fisheries