Introduction.- Part I Fishing crisis, regulations and structural issues: Fishing crisis and aquaculture.- Global and regional legal Regimes dealing with commercially-exploited marine species.- Structural and governance issues.- Part II The use of CITES for commercially-exploited fish species: Protection of commercially-exploited fish species under CITES.- CITES cooperation with other institutions in relation to commercially-exploited fish species.- Part III General conclusions and recommendations: Desirability of using CITES.- Recommendatio