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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
technology and assistance for monitoring, control and surveillance and compliance
and enforcement within areas under the national jurisdiction of the developing
coastal State providing fisheries access, taking into account the forms of
cooperation set out in article 25 of the Agreement and article 5 of the Code;
215. Encourages, in this regard, greater transparency regarding fisheries
access agreements, including by making them publicly available, subject to
confidentiality requirements;
216. Encourages States, individually and through regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to provide greater assistance and to
promote coherence in such assistance for developing States in designing,
establishing and implementing relevant agreements, instruments and tools for the
conservation and sustainable management of fish stocks, including in de signing and
strengthening their domestic regulatory fisheries policies and those of regional
fisheries management organizations or arrangements in their regions, and the
enhancement of research and scientific capabilities through existing funds, such as
the Assistance Fund under Part VII of the Agreement, bilateral assistance, regional
fisheries management organizations and arrangements assistance funds, the
FishCode programme, the World Bank’s global programme on fisheries and the
Global Environment Facility;
217. Calls upon States to promote, through continuing dialogue and the
assistance and cooperation provided in accordance with articles 24 to 26 of the
Agreement, further ratifications of or accessions to the Agreement by seeking to
address, inter alia, the issue of lack of capacity and resources that might stand in the
way of developing States becoming parties;
218. Notes with appreciation the compilation, prepared by the Secretariat and
available on the website of the Division, of the needs of develo ping States for
capacity-building and assistance in the conservation and management of straddling
fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks and the sources of available assistance
for developing States to address such needs;
219. Encourages States, regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements and other relevant bodies to assist developing States in the
implementation of the actions called for in paragraphs 80 and 83 to 87 of resolution
61/105, paragraphs 113, 117 and 119 to 124 of resolution 64/72 and paragraphs 121,
126, 129, 130 and 132 to 134 of resolution 66/68, and paragraphs 156, 171, 175 and
177 to 188 of the present resolution;
220. Urges States and regional economic integration organizations, individually
and through regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, to
mainstream efforts to assist developing States, in particular t he least developed and
small island developing States, with other relevant international development
strategies with a view to enhancing international coordination to enable them to
develop their national capacity to exploit fishery resources, consistent with the duty
to ensure the conservation and management of those resources, and in this regard
requests the Secretary-General to fully mobilize and coordinate the agencies, funds
and programmes of the United Nations system, including at the level of the reg ional
economic commissions, within their respective mandates;
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