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The Shaky Foundations of the FAO Port State Measures Agreement: How Watertight Is the Legal Seal against Access for Foreign Fishing Vessels?
The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law ( IF 1.393 ) Pub Date : 2016-09-05 , DOI: 10.1163/15718085-12341408
Andrew Serdy 1
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The Port State Measures Agreement aims to influence fishing vessels’ high seas activities, normally under the exclusive jurisdiction of their flag States, by withholding access to parties’ ports to unload catch and resupply. This works inter partes, but many flag States are unlikely to become party to it. The Agreement assumes States may nonetheless exclude foreign vessels from their ports, giving parties leverage to impose conditions derived from it on vessels of non-parties seeking access. But this assumption is valid only if the port State retains its right to exclude; many have bargained it away, in old bilateral treaties or as World Trade Organization members with freedom of transit obligations. The settlement on terms favourable to the European Union of both the Swordfish and Herring disputes, representing the flag State in one and port States in the other, suggests that market power vulnerable to abuse, not jurisdictional authority, may have been the decisive factor.

中文翻译:

粮农组织港口国措施协议的基础不稳固:防止外国渔船进入的法律封条有多防水?

《港口国措施协定》旨在通过阻止进入缔约方港口卸货和再补给来影响通常在其船旗国专属管辖范围内的渔船的公海活动。这在各方之间起作用,但许多船旗国不太可能成为其中的一方。该协定假定各国仍可将外国船只排除在其港口之外,从而使缔约方有能力对寻求进入的非缔约方的船只施加由此产生的条件。但这一假设只有在港口国保留其排除权的情况下才有效;许多人在旧的双边条约中或作为具有过境自由义务的世界贸易组织成员进行讨价还价。剑鱼和鲱鱼争端以对欧盟有利的条件解决,
更新日期:2016-09-05
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