North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission

NEAFC was founded in 1980 and established by the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Atlantic Fisheries.

[1] It replaced an earlier commission by the same name established by the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention of 24 January 1959.

It states that its objective is "to ensure the long-term conservation and optimum utilization of the fishery resources in its Convention Area, providing sustainable economic, environmental and social benefits.

"[2] The area covered by the NEAFC Convention stretches from the southern tip of Greenland, east to the Barents Sea, and south to Portugal.

[3] However, as an exception, the Baltic Sea and the Danish straits have been excluded from NEAFC jurisdiction, being managed instead directly by EU and Russia, in line with a bilateral general regional fishery management arrangement.