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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
19. Calls upon regional fisheries management organizations with the
competence to regulate highly migratory species to strengthen or establish
precautionary, science-based conservation and management measures, as appropriate,
for sharks taken in fisheries within their convention areas consistent with the
International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks;
20. Encourages range States and regional economic integration organizations
that have not yet done so to become signatories to the Memorandum o f
Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks under the Convention on
the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, 9 and invites non-range
States, intergovernmental organizations and international and national
non-governmental organizations or other relevant bodies and entities to consider
becoming cooperating partners;
21. Encourages States, as appropriate, to cooperate in establishing
non-detriment findings for shared stocks of marine species listed in appendices I
and II to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
Fauna and Flora, 8 consistent with the concepts and non-binding guiding principles
contained in resolution Conf. 16.7 on non-detriment findings adopted by the
Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora;
22. Urges States to eliminate barriers to trade in fish and fisheries products
which are not consistent with their rights and obligations under the World Trade
Organization agreements, taking into account the importance of the trade in fish and
fisheries products, particularly for developing countries;
23. Recalls that in “The future we want”, States committed themselves to
observing the need to ensure access to fisheries and the importance 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;
24. 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, regulations 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;
25. Welcomes the convening by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations of Tenure and Fishing Rights 2015: a global forum on rights -based
approaches for fisheries, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from 23 to 2 7 March 2015;
26. 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;
27. Welcomes, in this regard, the initiation of further studies by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations of the i mpact of industrial fishing
activities on species corresponding to low trophic levels;
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