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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take into account standards, forms of cooperation and other existing structures for
such programmes as described in article 25 of the Agreement and article 5 of the
Code;
13. Calls upon in this regard States, individually in line with their national
legislation or through regional fisheries management organizations or arrangements,
to take steps as appropriate to ensure the safety of observers;
14. Encourages States to implement, individually and through regional
fisheries management organizations and arrangements, accurate, complete, reliable
and effective data collection and reporting of required data on catches, including by catch and discards, reviewing and validating the data, and providing catch
information in support of scientific stock assessment and ecosystem approaches to
fisheries management;
15. Calls upon States and regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements to collect and, where appropriate, report to the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations required catch and effort data, and fishery related information, in a complete, accurate and timely way, including for straddling
fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks within and beyond areas under national
jurisdiction, discrete high seas fish stocks, and by-catch and discards; and, where
they do not exist, to establish processes to strengthen data collection and reporting
by members of regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements,
including through regular reviews of member compliance with such obligations,
and, when such obligations are not met, require the member concerned to rectify the
problem, including through the preparation of plans of action with timelines;
16. Invites States and regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements to cooperate with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations in the implementation and further development of the Fisheries Resources
Monitoring System initiative;
17. Reaffirms paragraph 10 of its resolution 61/105 of 8 December 2006, and
calls upon States, including through regional fisheries management organizations or
arrangements, to urgently adopt and implement measures to fully implement the
International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks for
directed and non-directed shark fisheries, based on the best available scientific
information, through, inter alia, limits on catch or fishing effort, by requiring that
vessels flying their flag collect and regularly report data on shark catches, including
species-specific data, discards and landings, undertaking, including through
international cooperation, comprehensive stock assessments of sharks, reducing
shark by-catch and by-catch mortality and, where scientific information is uncertain
or inadequate, not increasing fishing effort in directed shark fisheries and urgently
establishing science-based management measures to ensure the long-term
conservation, management and sustainable use of shark stocks and to prevent further
declines of vulnerable or threatened shark stocks, and encourages the full utilization
of dead sharks caught in the context of sustainably managed fisheries;
18. Calls upon States to take immediate and concerted action to improve the
implementation of and compliance with existing regional fisheries management
organization or arrangement and national measures that regulate shark fisheries and
incidental catch of sharks, in particular those measures which prohibit or restrict
fisheries conducted solely for the purpose of harvesting shark fins and, where
necessary, to consider taking other measures, as appropriate, such as requiring that
all sharks be landed with each fin naturally attached;
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