Declining populations of marine mammals have led to growing concern about their conservation.As a result, a series of specific conservation measures have been put in place (bans on hunting and trading, establishment of protected marine areas).Such rules, Tryptophan although restoring the populations of some species of marine mammals, have nevertheless failed to protect them from the most challenging threat to their survival: the bycatch of non-target species.
Accordingly, this Article highlights gaps within fisheries law, clarifying the efficacy of existing norms on the protection of the most endangered marine species of marine mammals, IGF with a particular focus on cetaceans, from over-exploitation.