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
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120. Urges the five regional fisheries management organizations with
competence to manage highly migratory species to continue to take measures to
implement the Course of Actions adopted at the second joint meeting of tuna
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements and to consider the
recommendations of the third joint meeting of tuna regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements;
121. Invites States and regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements with competence to manage straddling fish stocks to share
experiences and good practices, for example by considering organizing joint
meetings, where appropriate;
122. Urges regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements to
improve transparency and to ensure that their decision-making processes are fair
and transparent, rely on the best scientific information available, incorporate the
precautionary approach and ecosystem approaches, address participatory rights,
including through, inter alia, the development of transparent criteria for allocating
fishing opportunities which reflects, where appropriate, the relevant provisions of
the Agreement, taking due account, inter alia, of the status of the relevant stocks and
the respective interests in the fishery;
123. Welcomes the fact that a number of regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements have completed performance reviews, encourages
the implementation, as appropriate, of the recommendations of their respective
reviews as a matter of priority, and in this regard welcomes the 2012 performance
review of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization and the 2012
performance review of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission;
124. Urges States, through their participation in regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements that have not done so, to undertake, on an urgent
basis, performance reviews of those regional fisheries management organizations
and arrangements, initiated either by the organization or arrangement itself or with
external partners, including in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations, using transparent criteria based on the
provisions of the Agreement and other relevant instruments, and taking into account
the best practices of regional fisheries management organizations or arrangements
and, as appropriate, any set of criteria developed by States or other regional
fisheries management organizations or arrangements, and encourages that such
performance reviews include some element of independent evaluation and propose
means for improving the functioning of the regional fisheries management
organization or arrangement, as appropriate;
125. Calls upon States, through their participation in regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to undertake performance reviews of
those regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements on a regular
basis, and to make the results publicly available, to implement the recommendations
of such reviews and to strengthen the comprehensiveness of those reviews over
time, as necessary;
126. Recalls that in “The future we want”, States recognized the need for
transparency and accountability in fisheries management by regional fisheries
management organizations and the efforts already made by those regional fisheries
management organizations that had undertaken independent performance reviews,
called upon all regional fisheries management organizations to regularly undertake
such reviews and make the results publicly available, encouraged implementation of
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