New regional fisheries management regimes: establishing the South East Atlantic fisheries organisation

On the 20th of April 2001 the coastal States and fishing nations of the Sou th East Atlantic Ocean adopted the " Convention on the Conservation and Man agement of Fishery Resources in the South East Atlantic Ocean ". This artic le analyses the process of negotiating the convention, from its initiation by Namibia in 1995 until its adoption in 2001. It argues that the fisheries played a secondary role in the process, while the negotiations revolved ar ound the appropriate status and implementation of the UN Fish Stocks Agreem ent of 1995. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.