The author notes that a number of global commercial fisheries are facing imminent crisis as the fishing industry extracts fish across the high seas at unsustainable rates. She argues for the need in the coming decades for States as part of their fishery management programs to compromise and propose listing of a number of commercially threatened fish in the CITES Appendices. She focuses on the interpretation of the requirements under CITES Article I, III and IV related to “introduction from the sea” (IFS) as potential drivers for sustainable high seas fisheries.