Straddling Fish Stocks Agreement
Signed Location	December 4, 1995 - December 4, 1996 New York, United States of America
Effective Condition	December 11, 2001[1] 30 ratifications
Parties	71[2]

The Straddling Fish Stocks Agreement was created by the United Nations to enhance the cooperative management of fisheries resources that span wide areas, and are of economic and environmental concern to a number of nations.

The full name of the agreement is:

The United Nations Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks

Straddling stocks are fish stocks that migrate through, or occur in, more than one economic exclusion zone. The Agreement was adopted in 1995, and came into force in 2001.^[1]

Highly migratory fish is a term which has its origins in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It refers to fish species which undertake ocean migrations and also have wide geographic distributions, and usually denotes tuna and tuna-like species, shark, marlin and swordfish.

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• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Fisheries management
• Admiralty law

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• United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks