The Bamendjing is also the site of traditional fishing, and professional fisheries operate at Foumban.
The fishery operates in a remote area at the tip of South America, where the southern king crab frequents the cold waters of Tierra del Fuego.
Traditional fisheries for anchovies and sardines have also operated in the Pacific, the Mediterranean, and the southeast Atlantic.
There are four areas in the Maldives where fisheries can operate.
Without these subsidies, global deep-sea fisheries would operate at a loss of $50 million a year.
Small-scale fisheries operate in the area, and fishermen have used explosives and cyanide fishing extensively.
Any certified fishery must operate so that fishing can continue indefinitely and is not overexploiting the resources.
As a result every fishery certified against the MSC standard is operating at a very high level of precaution.
The fishery is now operating successfully and has an ongoing commitment to protecting weak populations and decreasing bycatch.
That fishery now operates under a quota established by the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization, whose members are salmon-producing nations.