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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of their economic base in the fishing industry, consistent with the duty to ensure the
proper conservation and management of fisheries resources;
36. Encourages States, intergovernmental organizations, international
financial institutions, national institutions and non-governmental organizations, as
well as natural and juridical persons, to make voluntary financial contributions to
the Assistance Fund established under Part VII of the Agreement;
37. Encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
and the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the Office of Legal
Affairs of the Secretariat (the Division) to continue their efforts to publicize the
availability of assistance through the Assistance Fund;
38. Encourages accelerated progress by States, individually and, as
appropriate, through subregional and regional fisheries management organizations
and arrangements, regarding the recommendations of the Review Conference on the
Agreement, held in New York from 22 to 26 May 2006, 15 and the identification of
emerging priorities;
39. Encourages States, individually and, as appropriate, through subregional
and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, to consider
implementing, as appropriate, the recommendations of the resumed Review
Conference, held in New York from 24 to 28 May 2010; 16
40. Takes note of the report on the tenth round of informal consultations of
States parties to the Agreement, recalls that the resumed Review Conference agreed
to keep the Agreement under review through the resumption of the Review
Conference at a date no earlier than 2015, and requests the Secretary-General to
resume the Review Conference, convened pursuant to article 36 of the Agreement,
in New York for one week in the first part of 2016, with a view to assessing the
effectiveness of the Agreement in securing the conservation and management of
straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks, and to render the necessary
assistance and provide such services as may be required for the resumption of the
Review Conference;
41. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the resumed Review
Conference an updated report, prepared in cooperation with the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and with the assistance of an expert
consultant to be hired by the Division to provide information and analysis on
relevant technical and scientific issues to be covered in the report, to assist the
Review Conference in discharging its mandate under article 36, paragraph 2, of the
Agreement, and also in this regard requests the Secretary-General to develop and
circulate to States and to regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements a voluntary questionnaire regarding the recommendations made by the
Review Conference in 2006 and 2010, in a timely manner, taking into account the
specific guidance proposed at the tenth round of informal consultations;
42. Encourages wide participation in the resumed Review Conference, in
accordance with article 36 of the Agreement;
43. Recalls paragraph 6 of resolution 56/13 of 28 November 2001, and
requests the Secretary-General to convene in March 2015 an eleventh round of
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See A/CONF.210/2006/15, annex.
See A/CONF.210/2010/7, annex.