Areas rich with valuable marine life have an understandable need to keep control over any possible increase in fishing activity that might spring up.<\/p>\n
Radio New Zealand reports that the country has just enacted legislation to help guard against unlawful fishing by ratifying the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Port State Measures Agreement.<\/p>\n
These rules would reportedly reward lawful operation of fishing vessels in the area and regulate these areas to make international activity legal and more prosperous.<\/p>\n
A statement issued on the official site of New Zealand's National Party featured a statement on the ratification. In it, Nathan Guy, the country's Primary Industries Minister, described the ways it will hopefully affect that country's economy<\/a> for the better.<\/p>\n "For New Zealand, it will means our fishers can operate in high value international fisheries with less threat of IUU [illegal, unregulated and unreported] fishers, while ensuring sustainability of our oceans," he said. <\/p>\n