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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
encourages further work by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations to consider developing guidelines on this issue;
112. Expresses its appreciation for financial contributions from States to
improve the capacity of the existing voluntary International Monitoring, Control and
Surveillance Network for Fisheries-related Activities, and encourages States to join
and actively participate in the Network and to consider supporting, when appropriate,
its transformation in accordance with international law into an international unit with
dedicated resources to further assist Network members, taking into account the forms
of cooperation with developing States as set out in article 25 of the Agreement;
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Fishing overcapacity
113. Calls upon States to commit themselves to urgently reducing the capacity
of the world’s fishing fleets to levels commensurate with the sustainability of fish
stocks, through the establishment of target levels and plans or other appropriate
mechanisms for ongoing capacity assessment, while avoiding the transfer of fishing
capacity to other fisheries or areas in a manner that undermines the sustainable
management of fish stocks, including those areas where fish stocks are overexploited
or in a depleted condition, and recognizing in this context the legitimate rights of
developing States to develop their fisheries for straddling fish stocks and highly
migratory fish stocks consistent with article 25 of the Agreement, article 5 of the
Code and paragraph 10 of the International Plan of Action for the Management of
Fishing Capacity of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
114. Calls upon, in this regard, States, individually or through regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to develop and implement a range of
measures to adjust fishing intensity, including fishing capacity where relevant, to
levels commensurate with the sustainability of fish stocks, and including capacity
assessment and capacity management plans providing incentives for voluntary
reduction, which take into account all aspects that contribute to fishing capacity,
considering, inter alia, engine power, fishing gear technology, fish detection
technology and storage space, and also to improve transparency on fishin g capacity,
including by identifying, sharing and publicizing relevant information in this regard,
subject to confidentiality requirements;
115. Reiterates its call upon States, individually and through regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to ensure that the urgent actions
required in the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity
are undertaken expeditiously and that its implementation is facilitated without delay;
116. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to
report on the state of progress in the implementation of the International Plan of
Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity, as provided for in paragraph 48 of
the Plan of Action;
117. Calls upon States, individually and, as appropriate, through subregional
and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements with competence
to regulate highly migratory species, urgently to address global fishing capacity for
tunas, inter alia, in a way that recognizes the legitimate rights of developing States,
in particular small island developing States, to participate in and benefit from such
fisheries, taking into account the recommendations of the 2010 Joint Tuna Regional
Fisheries Management Organizations International Workshop on RFMO Management
of Tuna Fisheries, held in Brisbane, Australia, and the recommendations of the 2011
third joint meeting of tuna regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements;
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