Objectives

The fundamental objectives of this Act are– (a) to promote long term conservation and management, and sustainable use of marine resources on the high seas; (b) to implement the FAO Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and Management Measures by fishing vessels on the high seas adopted by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on 24 November 1993; (c) to implement the United Nations 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, adopted at New York on 4th August 1995; and (d) to establish a system for the regulation of Belize flagged high seas fishing vessels which 8 operate outside the territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zone of Belize.