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| date_signed         = 4 December 1995 – 4 December 1996
| location_signed     = [[New York City]], [[United States of America]]
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| date_effective      = 11 December 2001<ref name="Overview"/>
| condition_effective = 30 ratifications
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| signatories         = 59
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The '''United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement''' ('''UNFSA'''), otherwise known as the '''Straddling Fish Stocks Agreement''' (formally, the '''Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks''') is a [[multilateral treaty]] created by the [[United Nations]] to enhance the cooperative management of fisheries resources that span wide areas, and are of economic and environmental concern to a number of nations. As of December 2016, the treaty had been ratified by 91 parties, which includes 90 states and the [[European Union]].<ref name = ratifications/>

[[Fish stocks|Straddling stock]] are fish stocks that [[Fish migration|migrate]] through, or occur in, more than one [[exclusive economic zone]]. The Agreement was adopted in 1995, and came into force in 2001.<ref name="Overview">[https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_fish_stocks.htm Overview - Convention & Related Agreements]</ref>

[[Highly migratory fish]] is a term which has its origins in the [[United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]]. It refers to fish species which undertake ocean migrations and also have wide geographic distributions, and usually denotes [[tuna]] and tuna-like species, [[shark]], [[marlin]] and [[swordfish]]. Straddling fish stocks are especially vulnerable to [[overexploitation]] because of ineffective management regimes and noncompliance by fishing interests.{{fact|date=June 2023}}

==See also==
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* [[Fisheries management]]
* [[Admiralty law]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* [https://www.un.org/Depts/los/fish_stocks_conference/fish_stocks_conference.htm United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks]
* [http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/books/books/9780660197241.html The Quest for Sustainable International FisheriesRegional Efforts to Implement the 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement: An Overview for the May 2006 Review Conference]

==External links==
* [http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/aipuncls/aipuncls.html Procedural history and related documents] on the ''United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement'' in the [http://legal.un.org/avl/historicarchives.html Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law]

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