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Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions
of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation
and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments
improve and the 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration to strengthen disciplines
on fisheries subsidies, taking into account the importance of the fisheries sector to
developing countries;
87. Recalls, in this regard, that in “The future we want”, States reaffirmed
their commitment in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation to eliminate subsidies
that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and overcapacity, taking
into account the importance of that sector to developing countries, reiterated their
commitment to conclude multilateral disciplines on fisheries subsidies that would
give effect to the mandates of the World Trade Organization Doha Development
Agenda15 and the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration to strengthen disciplines on
subsidies in the fisheries sector, including through the prohibition of certain forms
of fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, recognizing
that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and
least developed countries should be an integral part of World Trade Organization
fisheries subsidies negotiation, taking into account the importance of the sector to
development priorities, poverty reduction and livelihood and food security concerns,
and encouraged one another to further improve the transparency and reporting of
existing fisheries subsidies programmes through the World Trade Organization and,
given the state of fisheries resources, and without prejudicing the Doha and Hong
Kong ministerial mandates on fisheries subsidies or the need to conclude those
negotiations, to eliminate subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and overfishing
and to refrain from introducing new such subsidies or from extending or enhancing
existing ones;
VII
Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing
88. Expresses concern that, despite the adoption of General Assembly
resolution 46/215 of 20 December 1991, the practice of large-scale pelagic drift-net
fishing still exists and remains a threat to living marine resources;
89. Urges States, individually and through regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements, to adopt effective measures, or strengthen existing
measures, to implement and enforce the provisions of resolution 46/215 and
subsequent resolutions on large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing in order to eliminate
the use of large-scale pelagic drift nets in all seas and oceans, which means that
efforts to implement resolution 46/215 should not result in the transfer to other parts
of the world of drift nets that contravene the resolution;
90. Also urges States, individually and through regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements, to adopt effective measures, or strengthen existing
measures, to implement and enforce the present global moratorium on the use of
large-scale pelagic drift nets on the high seas, and calls upon States to ensure that
vessels flying their flag that are duly authorized to use large-scale drift nets in
waters under their national jurisdiction do not use such gear for fishing while on the
high seas;
VIII
Fisheries by-catch and discards
91. Urges States, subregional and regional fisheries management organizations
and arrangements and other relevant international organizations that have not done
so to take action, including with consideration of the interests of developing coastal
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