During the past decade, a number of rivalries over fish stocks straddling from coastal zones
into the high seas turned into bitter disputes involving some of the world's foremost fishing
nations. This article examines the interplay of global and regional efforts to strengthen the
basis for management of high seas fisheries. The overall effect of the 1995 UN Fish Stocks
Agreement for the effectiveness of regional management of straddling stocks is to support
and globalize institutional features, especially regarding compliance control, that had so far …