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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measures, and further urges enhanced coordination among all relevant States and
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in these efforts;
84. Welcomes the endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines for Flag State
Performance by the Committee on Fisheries at its thirty-first session, 17 and also
welcomes the fact that the Committee urged its members to start implementing the
Guidelines as soon as possible;
85. Encourages further work by competent international organizations,
including subregional and regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements, to develop guidelines on flag State control of fishing vessels;
86. Urges States, individually and through relevant regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to establish mandatory vessel
monitoring, control and surveillance systems, in particular to require that vessel
monitoring systems be carried by all vessels fishing on the high seas as soon as
practicable, recalling that in paragraph 62 of resolution 63/112 of 5 December 2008
it urged that large-scale fishing vessels be required to carry vessel monitoring
systems no later than December 2008, and to share information on fisheries
enforcement matters;
87. Calls upon States, individually and through regional fisheries
management organizations or arrangements, to strengthen or establish, consistent
with national and international law, positive or negative lists of vessels fishing
within the areas covered by relevant regional fisheries management organizations
and arrangements in order to promote compliance with conservation and
management measures and to identify products from illegal, unreported and
unregulated catches, and encourages improved coordination among all States and
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in sharing and using
this information, taking into account the forms of cooperation with developing
States as set out in article 25 of the Agreement;
88. Encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, in cooperation with States, regional economic integration organizations, the
International Maritime Organization and, as appropriate, regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to expedite efforts to develop and
manage a comprehensive global record of fishing vessels, refrigerated transport
vessels and supply vessels, including with a unique vessel identifier system, using,
as a first step, the International Maritime Organization Ship Identification Number
Scheme for fishing vessels of 100 gross tonnage and above, adopted by the
Assembly of the International Maritime Organization in its resolution A.1078 (28)
of 4 December 2013;
89. Welcomes the continued development of the Global Record of Fishing
Vessels, Refrigerated Transport Vessels and Supply Vessels by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, including its efforts to keep it costeffective, and encourages States, including through regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements, to provide the necessary data to the Global Record;
90. Also welcomes the agreement that the International Maritime Organization
ship identification number should be used as the unique vessel identifier for phase I of
the Global Record of Fishing Vessels, Refrigerated Transport Vessels and Supply
Vessels and the fact that several regional fisheries management organizations and
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document COFI/2014/4.2/Rev.1, appendix II.