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
A/RES/70/75
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;
107. 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 long -term
conservation, management and sustainable use of the relevant fish stocks and to
prevent significant adverse impacts on vulnerable marine ecosystems;
108. Urges States to eliminate subsidies that contribute to overfishing and
overcapacity and to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, including by
accelerating work to complete World Trade Organization negotiations on fisheries
subsidies in accordance with the 2001 Doha Ministerial Declaration 16 to clarify and
improve and the 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration to strengthen disciplines
on fisheries subsidies, taking into account the importance of the fisheries sector to
developing countries;
109. Recalls in this regard 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 16 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 subsidi es programmes
through the World Trade Organization and, given the state of fisheries resources,
and without prejudicing the Doha and Hong Kong ministerial mandates on fisheries
subsidies or the need to conclude those negotiations, to eliminate subsidies th at
contribute to overcapacity and overfishing and to refrain from introducing new such
subsidies or from extending or enhancing existing ones;
VII
Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing
110. Expresses concern that, despite the adoption of General Assembly
resolution 46/215, the practice of large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing still exists and
remains a threat to living marine resources;
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