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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fisheries, in conformity with international law, in pa rticular the Convention and the
Agreement, and taking into account article 5 of the Code;
190. Requests distant-water fishing nations, when negotiating access
agreements and arrangements with developing coastal States, to do so on an
equitable and sustainable basis and to take into account their legitimate expectation
to fully benefit from the sustainable use of the natural resources of their exclusive
economic zones, to ensure that vessels flying their flag comply with the laws and
regulations of the developing coastal States adopted in accordance with international
law and to give greater attention to fish processing and fish -processing facilities
within the national jurisdiction of the developing coastal State to assist the
realization of the benefits from the development of fisheries resources and also to
the transfer of 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;
191. 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 designing and
strengthening their domestic regulatory fisheries policies and those of regional
fisheries management organizations or arrangements in their r egions, 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, th e
FishCode programme, the World Bank’s global programme on fisheries and the
Global Environment Facility;
192. Encourages States to provide technical and financial support to
developing countries to address their special requirements and challenges in
implementing the Guidelines;
193. 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;
194. Notes with appreciation the compilation, prepared by the Secretariat and
available on the website of the Division, of the needs of developing 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;
195. 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;
196. 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 the
least developed and small island developing States, with other relevant international
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