Making fisheries management more difficult, high seas fisheries, and those of many pelagic stocks that cross borders such as tuna, sharks, and swordfish, are managed by approximately seventeen separate (though sometimes overlapping) regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs). This management is based mostly on voluntary commitments, with few binding international treaties. Mazurek presented a vision for strengthening international fisheries policy, utilizing the UN’s Sustainability Goal 14—to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources—as a catalyst for change.
