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/69/109
either directly or through appropriate subregional or regional fisheries management
organizations or arrangements, to ensure the effective conservation and management
of such stocks;
122. Urges States fishing for straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish
stocks on the high seas, and relevant coastal States, where a subregional or regional
fisheries management organization or arrangement has the competence to establish
conservation and management measures for such stocks, to give effect to their duty
to cooperate by becoming members of such an organization or participants in such
an arrangement, or by agreeing to apply the conservation and management measures
established by such an organization or arrangement, or to otherwise ensure that no
vessel flying their flag is authorized to access the fisheries resources to which
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements or conservation and
management measures established by such organizations or arrangements apply;
123. Invites, in this regard, subregional and regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements to ensure that all States having a real interest in the
fisheries concerned may become members of such organizations or participants in
such arrangements, in accordance with the Convention, the Agreement and
the Code;
124. Encourages relevant coastal States and States fishing on the high seas for
a straddling fish stock or a highly migratory fish stock, where there is no
subregional or regional fisheries management organization or arrangement to
establish conservation and management measures for such stocks, to cooperate to
establish such an organization or enter into another appropriate arrangement to
ensure the conservation and management of such stocks, and to participate in the
work of the organization or arrangement;
125. Welcomes in this regard the convening of the second regional
consultation on regional cooperation for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in the
Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, in Cairo, from 22 to 24 June 2014;
126. Notes the adoption on 10 October 2014 of the Caribbean Community
Common Fisheries Policy, aimed at promoting cooperation and collaboration for the
sustainable development of fisheries and aquaculture in the Caribbean region;
127. Urges signatory States and other States whose vessels fish within the area
of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Fishery Resources in the
South-East Atlantic Ocean 20 for fishery resources covered by that Convention to
become parties to that Convention as a matter of priority and, in the interim, to
ensure that vessels flying their flags fully comply with the measures adopted;
128. Encourages further ratifications of, accessions to, acceptances and
approvals of the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement;
129. Also encourages further ratifications of, accessions to, acceptances and
approvals of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas
Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean;
130. Welcomes the recent signatures and ratification of the Convention on the
Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North
Pacific Ocean, and encourages further ratifications, accessions, acceptances and
approvals of that Convention;
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Ibid., vol. 2221, No. 39489.