Main - Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement (CAOFA)
Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean
The objective of the Agreement is to prevent unregulated fishing in the high seas portion of the central Arctic Ocean through the application of precautionary conservation and management measures as part of a long-term strategy to safeguard healthy marine ecosystems and to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of fish stocks.
The Agreement was signed in Ilulissat, Greenland on October 3, 2018. There were ten participants in the negotiation of and Signatories to the Agreement: Canada, the People’s Republic of China, the Kingdom of Denmark (in respect of the Faroe Islands and Greenland), the European Union, Iceland, Japan, the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America.