Reference Works and Manuals

Kwame Mfodwo, Monash University, Australia
2009   c. 320pp   Paperback and Online   ISBN tba

This Manual provides a practical, theoretically informed handbook to support the negotiation of bilateral fisheries access agreements by coastal States. Typically such agreements are negotiated by a team of officials from different departments and ministries who come together from time to time to compose a Coastal State Negotiating Team (CSNT). Members of the CSNT typically have different disciplines, training, responsibilities and experience – an advantage as well as a disadvantage in negotiations. The Manual seeks to provide CSNTs with guidance on process as well as content issues as Coastal States enter an increasingly challenging and competitive environment for access to their resources. Planned publication date: October 2009

Available in English and French. 

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Chris Hedley, Ocean Law ICS & Barrister, UK
2009   c. 400pp   Paperback and Online   ISBN tba

Fisheries agreements play a critical role in the development, implementation and operation of world fisheries laws and policies. The number and complexity of instruments concluded in the past 20 years has increased greatly, however. International Fisheries Agreements, a comprehensive 2-volume reference work on multilateral and bilateral agreements, seeks to describe and analyse in a practical way the key features, objectives and functions of relevant agreements and instruments and to present the major trends created by them. Volume 1 focuses on multilateral agreements and provides descriptions, analyses and commentary on over 90 current international treaties and selected non-binding instruments and over 40 historic agreements. Planned publication date: November 2009

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Chris Hedley, Ocean Law ICS & Barrister, UK; and various contributors
2010   c. 360pp   Paperback and Online   ISBN tba

Volume 2 of International Fisheries Agreements covers bilateral fisheries agreements. These agreements comprise in particular fisheries access agreements but also include shared stock agreements, enforcement cooperation agreements, trade agreements and various other types of agreement. This volume, written by leading experts on bilateral fisheries relations, analyses the principal trends in the negotiation, formulation and operation of bilateral fisheries agreements and examines the practice of major players including the European Union, the United States, the South Pacific island States, African coastal States, China and Japan. Planned publication date: October 2010

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Various editors and contributors
2010   Online   ISSN tba

The rapidly increasing state and complexity of international ocean law demands an accessible, reliable and up-to-date source of information for those in the field. Multilateral Treaties and the Law of the Sea is an online reference centre providing information and analysis of over 300 multilateral conventions, agreements and voluntary instruments relevant to the governance of marine issues. The numerous practical features include: summary files, highlighting the important features of each agreement; detailed analytical profiles, covering the negotiating background, objectives, institutional mechanisms, main provisions and functions and practice of each agreement; a monthly supplement providing details of relevant treaty actions and developments in relation to each agreement; and easy access to the text and membership lists of each agreement, all presented in an online and searchable format. Designed to facilitate examination of the increasingly complex development of and inter-play between international marine agreements, this unique resource will be an invaluable tool for dealing with the changing landscape of international marine issues. Planned publication date: May 2010

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