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One of the classic problems facing fisheries resources in the high seas is the old dictum "freedom of the seas", whereby global fisheries resources are considered free to all States. However the application of this freedom has become increasingly dangerous as the exhaustible nature of fish stocks has been realised. In 2011, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported that only 15% of global marine fish stocks were estimated to be underexploited and moderately exploited. In this challenging situation, Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RFMO) appeared as a mechanism through which States that could cooperate in the interest of conserving and managing marine living resources. As an archipelagic State, Indonesia has been joint to some of RFMO. How such RFMOs can lead by their international authorities in managing quotas allocation to all member countries and whether the implication from the existence of Indonesia through its membership are main points of this article. |
