Treaty Name:
Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean
Notes:
http://www.npafc.org/new/publications/Newsletter/NL39/Newsletter39(24-32)NPFC.pdf: The final step in the creation of NPFC was, as they say, a matter of skill. At the 6th Preparatory Conference session on March 21, 2014, Japan and Canada informed the group that they had deposited their instruments of acceptance and ratification, respectively. Then, the Russian Federation accepted the Convention on April 13, 2014, which started raising anticipation for the fourth instrument of ratification that would trigger the process of the Convention entering into force 180 days afterwards. There was a relatively long wait, until the Peoples' Republic of China overtook other potential Parties and submitted the instrument of ratification on January 21, 2015. The summer of 2015 yielded two more accedences: Korea submitted the fifth instrument of ratification on June 17, 2015, and the written instrument from Chinese Taipei as a 'fishing entity' was delivered on July 27, 2015. The Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean entered into force on July 19, 2015.
