An International Relations Perspective on Compliance and Enforcement

International transparency obligations in fisheries conservation and management: Inter-state and intra-state dimensions

“…If a single state decides to overfish a particular shared stock in disregard of the agreed rules, it has consequences for all other states fishing for that stock. In this context, it is important for each state to know that other participants in the regime are also performing their obligations [9]. The introduction of transparency obligations provides a key means of building trust and confidence in order to facilitate compliance with international law by providing information on how other parties to an obligation behave [10]- [12].…”