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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detection technology and storage space, and also to improve transparency on fishing
capacity, including by identifying, sharing and publicizing relevant information in
this regard, subject to confidentiality requirements;
112. Reiterates its call upon States, individually and through regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to ensure that the urgent actions
required in the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity
are undertaken expeditiously and that its implementation is facilitated without
delay;
113. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to
report on the state of progress in the implementation of the International Plan of
Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity, as provided for in paragraph 48 of
the Plan of Action;
114. Calls upon States, individually and, as appropriate, through subregional
and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements with competence
to regulate highly migratory species, urgently to address global fishing capacity for
tunas, inter alia, in a way that recognizes the legitimate rights of developing States,
in particular small island developing States, to participate in and benefit from such
fisheries, taking into account the recommendations of the 2010 Joint Tuna Regional
Fisheries Management Organizations International Workshop on RFMO Management
of Tuna Fisheries, held in Brisbane, Australia, and the recommendations of the 2011
third joint meeting of tuna regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements;
115. Encourages those States which are cooperating to establish subregional
and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, taking into
account the best scientific information available as well as ecosystem approaches
and the precautionary approach, to exercise voluntary restraint of fishing effort
levels in those areas that will come under the regulation of the future organizations
and arrangements until adequate regional conservation and management measures
are adopted and implemented, taking into account the need to ensure the lo ng-term
conservation, management and sustainable use of the relevant fish stocks and to
prevent significant adverse impacts on vulnerable marine ecosystems;
116. Recalls 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 Agenda 22 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,
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