to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing vessels, though there are also opinions that the system is ineffective. Alternative arrangements A regional fishery management arrangement denotes an international fishery agreement which refrains from establishing a formal regional fishery body, while the fishery management is exercised instead directly by the contracting parties, an option limited mostly to cases where there are only two actors in a basin. An example is the Baltic sea where, due to reduction in 2004 in the number of actors in the basin from six to just two, the formerly existing general RMFO (the International Baltic Sea Fisheries Commission) was dissolved in 2007, while according to the new general regional fishery management arrangement, the fishery management tasks have been taken over directly by the two extant actors in the basin, namely the EU and Russia. Nevertheless, the sea has still remained under management by a tuna RMFO (ICCAT) and two other specialised RFMOs dedicated to salmon (NASCO) and whaling (IWC). References External links The official UN FAO directory of all recognised RFMOs by type, as well as RFABs RFMOs on the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans Canada General information and map of RFMOs RFMOs on the Ministry of Fischery New Zealand Information, Problems and possible improvements Informal framework for sharing information from tuna RFMOs Fisheries agencies International economic organizations