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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
26. Recalls that, in “The future we want”, States committed themselves to
observing the need to ensure access to fisheries and the importan ce of access to
markets by subsistence, small-scale and artisanal fisherfolk and women fish
workers, as well as indigenous peoples and their communities, particularly in
developing countries, especially small island developing States;
27. Urges States and relevant international and national organizations to
provide for the participation of small-scale fishery stakeholders in related policy
development and fisheries management strategies in order to achieve long -term
sustainability for such fisheries, consistent with the duty to ensure the proper
conservation and management of fisheries resources, and encourages States to
consider promoting, as appropriate, participatory management schemes for small scale fisheries in accordance with national laws, regulatio ns and practices, as well as
the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small -scale Fisheries in the
Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations;
28. Welcomes the convening by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations of Entebbe 2016: Advancing a global work programme for rights based approaches for fisheries, in Entebbe, Uganda, from 1 to 4 March 2016;
29. Encourages States, either directly or through competent and appropriate
subregional, regional or global organizations and arrangements, to analyse, as
appropriate, the impact of fishing for marine species corresponding to low trophic
levels;
30. Welcomes, in this regard, the initiation of further studies by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations of the impact of industrial fishing
activities on species corresponding to low trophic levels;
31. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to
consider the potential effects of genetically engineered fish species on the health
and sustainability of wild fish stocks and on the biodiversity of the aquatic
environment and to provide guidance, consistent with the Code, on minimizing
harmful impacts in this regard;
32. Also invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, in consultation with other relevant international organizations, including
the International Maritime Organization, to promote awareness and cooperation to
develop and strengthen capacity to prevent, minimize and mitigate the adverse
impacts of invasive alien species on biodiversity, including fish stocks;
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Implementation of 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
33. Welcomes the most recent accession to the Agreement and calls upon all
States, and entities referred to in the Convention and in article 1, paragraph 2 (b), of
the Agreement, that have not done so to ratify or accede to the Agreement and in the
interim to consider applying it provisionally;
34. Calls upon States parties to the Agreement to effectively implement, as a
matter of priority, the provisions of the Agreement through their national legislation
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