Meanwhile the high seas fisheries of the southeast Atlantic were left without a managing body.

Carter then observes that action by Canada making the salmon a game fish wouldn't apply to those high seas fisheries.

As the high seas fishery was being brought under control, Canada's national and provincial governments restricted or banned commercial fishing for the species.

Oceanic sharks are captured incidentally by swordfish and tuna high seas fisheries.

In addition to the high seas fisheries, salmon are also taken by drift nets and fixed nets closer to shore.

This can apply to fisheries that are under the jurisdiction of a coastal state or to high seas fisheries regulated by regional organisations.

One of the Agreement's key activities is to provide expert advice on seabird bycatch mitigation to fisheries managers, both in domestic and High Seas fisheries.

New Zealand has international obligations to ensure New Zealand flagged vessels are aligned with proper conservation and management of the high seas fisheries.

The Davis Strait high seas fishery and all like it are dangerous because salmon from many nations are taken indiscriminately, making it theoretically possible to annihilate individual river stocks.

Although its critics have described drift netting as "the biological strip mining of the sea," there is relatively little scientific data about its effects, because there has been virtually no monitoring of the high seas fisheries.

The Tarawa Declaration, published at the conclusion of the Forum meeting, condemned drift-net fishing as 'indiscriminate, irresponsible and destructive', and "not consistent with international legal requirements in relation to rights and obligations of high seas fisheries conservation and management and environmental principles'.

SEAFO is working closely with the United Nations in particular with FAO and with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) aiming at strengthening high seas fisheries governance.

But Dr. Linda L. Jones, director of the high seas fisheries program of the National Marine Mammal Laboratory, a National Marine Fisheries Service center in Seattle, said tens of thousands of marine animals are taken in the 50,000 net retrievals each year.