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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international law, including enacting domestic legislation, in order to prevent and
deter vessels without nationality from engaging in or supporting illegal, unreported
and unregulated fishing;
88. Encourages States, either directly or through competent and appropriate
subregional, regional or global organizations and arrangements, to consider adopting
rules, consistent with international law, to ensure that chartering arrangements and
practices related to fishing vessels enable compliance with and enforcement of
relevant conservation and management measures, so as not to undermine efforts to
combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing;
89. Recognizes the need for enhanced port State measures to combat illegal,
unreported and unregulated fishing, and urges States to cooperate, in particular at the
regional level and through subregional and regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements, to adopt all necessary port measures, consistent with
international law taking into account article 23 of the Agreement, and to further
promote the development and application of standards at the regional level;
90. Welcomes the recent ratifications of and accessions to the Agreement on
Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and
Unregulated Fishing, 6 and encourages States and regional economic integration
organizations that have not yet done so to consider ratifying, accepting, approving or
acceding to that Agreement;
91. Takes note of the convening of the working groups under the Agreement
on Port State Measures to develop operational resources and build capacity to support
implementation of that Agreement, and also takes note of the work to develop the
information exchange portal at the first meeting of the open -ended technical working
group on information exchange under that Agreement, held from 16 to 18 April 2018;
92. Notes the capacity development programme of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations aimed at facilitating and supporting the
implementation of the Agreement on Port State Measures and related instruments,
which contributes to the development of national capacity of both parties and
non-parties, including the strengthening of the institutional, operational and
enforcement capacity of developing States with a view to maximizing the benefits of
its implementation;
93. Also notes, in this regard, the regional workshops convened by the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on implementing the Agreement
on Port State Measures;
94. Recognizes the ongoing collaboration between the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations and the International Maritime Organization, as
well as the International Labour Organization, through the Joint FAO/IMO Ad Hoc
Working Group on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Relate d Matters
with regard to, inter alia, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, maritime safety
and decent labour conditions in the fisheries sector, as reflected in the report of the
third session of the Ad Hoc Working Group, held from 16 to 18 November 2015;
95. Encourages States, with respect to vessels flying their flag, and port
States, to make every effort to share data on landings and catch quotas, and in this
regard encourages regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements to
consider developing open databases containing such data for the purpose of enhancing
the effectiveness of fisheries management;
96. Takes note that the Committee on Fisheries, at its thirty-third session,
expressed support for the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations in continuing to develop technical guidelines for the estimation of the
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