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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promote coherence in such assistance for developing States in designing, establishing
and implementing relevant agreements, instruments and tools for the conservation
and sustainable management of fish stocks, including in designing and strengthening
their domestic regulatory fisheries policies and those of regional fisheries
management organizations or arrangements in their regions, and the enhancement of
research and scientific capabilities through existing funds, such as the Assistance
Fund under Part VII of the Agreement, bilateral assistance, regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements assistance funds, the FishCode
programme, the World Bank’s global programme on fisheries and the Global
Environment Facility;
220. Calls upon States to promote, through continuing dialogue and the
assistance and cooperation provided in accordance with articles 24 to 26 of the
Agreement, further ratifications of or accessions to the Agreement by seeking to
address, inter alia, the issue of lack of capacity and resources that might stand in the
way of developing States becoming parties;
221. Notes with appreciation the compilation, prepared by the Secretariat and
available on the website of the Division, of the needs of developing States for
capacity-building and assistance in the conservation and management of straddling
fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks and the sources of available assistance
for developing States to address such needs;
222. Encourages States, regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements and other relevant bodies to assist developing States in the
implementation of the actions called for in paragraphs 80 and 83 to 87 of resolution
61/105, paragraphs 113, 117 and 119 to 124 of resolution 64/72, paragraphs 121, 126,
129, 130 and 132 to 134 of resolution 66/68 and paragraphs 156, 171, 175 and 177 to
188 of resolution 71/123;
223. Urges States and regional economic integration organizations, individually
and through regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, to
mainstream efforts to assist developing States, in particular the least developed and
small island developing States, with other relevant international developme nt
strategies with a view to enhancing international coordination to enable them to
develop their national capacity to exploit fishery resources, consistent with the duty
to ensure the conservation and management of those resources, and in this regard
requests the Secretary-General to fully mobilize and coordinate the agencies, funds
and programmes of the United Nations system, including at the level of the regional
economic commissions, within their respective mandates;
224. Requests States and regional fisheries management organizations to
develop strategies to further assist developing States, in particular the least developed
and small island developing States, in fully realizing the benefits from the catch of
straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks and in strengthening regional
efforts to sustainably conserve and manage such stocks, and, in this regard, to make
available such information;
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Cooperation within the United Nations system
225. Requests the relevant parts of the United Nations system, international
financial institutions and donor agencies to support increased enforcement and
compliance capabilities for regional fisheries management organizations and their
member States;
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