| STATUS OF FISHERIES AND MARINE RESOURCES INVENTORY | DATE:
December, 2011 |
| Marine area | Contributed by | Description | Marine Resources | Fisheries |
| Number | Status | Number | Status |
| Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas |
| Atlantic Ocean | International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) | Tuna and tuna-like resources and sharks managed by ICCAT | 29 | Validated | - | - |
| Mediterranean Sea | General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean Sea (FAO - GFCM) | Shared marine resources in the Mediterranean Sea recognized by GFCM | 130 | Validated | - | - |
| Eastern Central Atlantic | Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (FAO-CECAF) | Marine resources and National fisheries of Morocco, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Gambia, Guinea, Senegal, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo | 217 | Validated | 315 | Partially validated |
| Northeast Atlantic | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) | Marine resources monitored by ICES, Fisheries managed by ICES | 191 | Validated | 216 | Draft |
| North East Atlantic fisheries Commission (NEAFC) | Fisheries managed by NEAFC | - | - | 11 | Validated |
| Northwest Atlantic | Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) | Marine resources monitored by NAFO | 18 | Validated | 5 | Validated |
| Western and Central Atlantic | Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (FAO-WECAFC) | National fisheries and Regional and National marine resources in Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana and Venezuela | 264 | Validated | 233 | Draft |
| Northwest Atlantic and Western and Central Atlantic | National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS) - FIRMS candidate partner | USA EEZ marine resource monitored by NMFS; USA EEZ fisheries monitored by NMFS | 463 | Draft | - | - |
| Southeast Atlantic | Southeast Atlantic Fisheries Organization (SEAFO) | Deep sea marine resources | 12 | Validated | - | - |
| Ministry of Fisheries and Marine resources (MFMR) - Benguela Current Commission (BCC) | National marine resources and Fisheries of Angola, Namibia and South Africa | 271 | Draft | 95 | Draft |
| Total | 1595 | 875 |
| Pacific Ocean |
| Pacific Ocean | Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) | Tuna and Tuna-like resources managed by IATTC | 23 | Validated | 15 | 1 Validated
14 Draft |
| Pacific Ocean | Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) and Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) | Tuna and Tuna-like resources managed by IATTC and WCPFC | 8 | Validated | - | - |
| South Pacific Ocean | Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) | Tuna and Tuna-like resources managed by WCPFC; fisheries managed by WCPFC | 14 | Validated | 15 | Draft |
| Northeast Pacific and Eastern Central Pacific | National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS) - FIRMS candidate partner | USA EEZ marine resource monitored by NMFS, USA EEZ fisheries monitored by NMFS | 406 | Draft | 12 | Draft |
| Total | 451 | 42 |
| Indian Ocean |
| Indian Ocean | Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) | Tuna and Tuna-like resources monitored by IOTC | 15 | Validated | - | - |
| Western Indian Ocean - Eastern Arabian Sea | | Marine resources of Eastern Arabian Sea (Pakistan, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka) | 7 | Draft | - | - |
| Western Indian Ocean - Red Sea and Gulf of Aden | | Marine resources of Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (Saudi Arabia (Red Sea), Egypt (Red Sea), Sudan (Red Sea), Eritrea (Red Sea), Djibouti (Red Sea), Yemen) | 192 | Draft | 63 | Draft |
| Western Indian Ocean - Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman | Regional Commission for Fisheries (RECOFI) | Marine resources of Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Oman) | 104 | Draft | 95 | Draft |
| Western Indian Ocean - Coastal East Africa | Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC) | Marine resources and Fisheries monitored by SWIOFC (Somalia, Comoros, Kenya, La Réunoin, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa Eastern, TAAF, ZE Saint Paul et Amsterdam, Tanzania) | 138 | Validated | - | - |
| Total | 456 | 158 |
| Pacific and Indian Ocean |
| Southeast Asia | Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) | Fisheries monitored by SEAFDEC (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) | - | - | 14 | Validated |
| Australia | Bureau of Rural Science (BRS) - FIRMS candidate partner | Australian fisheries at federal and national levels | - | - | 127 | Draft |
| Southern Hemisphere |
| Southern Hemisphere | Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) | Global Tuna resource monitored by CCSBT; Fisheries monitored by CCSBT | 1 | Validated | 3 | Draft |
| Southern Ocean |
| Southern Ocean | Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Resources (CCAMLR) | Marine resource managed and monitored by CCAMLR; Fisheries monitored by CCAMLR | 3 | Validated | 18 | 7 Validated
11 Draft |
| Total | 4 | 162 |
| World overview | Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) | Marine resources with high level of aggregation; High level Fisheries | 26 | Validated | 1 | Validated |
