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/73/125 approaches to its prevention and removal are necessary, including identificati on of such sources and environmentally sound techniques for its removal, Recognizing also that the majority of marine debris, including plastics and microplastics, entering the seas and oceans is considered to originate from land -based sources, Recognizing further that abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear, including ghost fishing gear, is an increasingly pervasive and destructive form of marine debris causing adverse impacts on fish stocks, marine life and the marine environment and that urgent preventative action is needed, such as marking of fishing gear as proposed by the Committee on Fisheries, as well as removal action, Noting that the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea focused its discussions at its nineteenth meeting, held from 18 to 22 June 2018, on anthropogenic underwater noise, 7 Acknowledging that anthropogenic underwater noise could have impacts on different marine species, which could also have consequent socioeconomic im pacts, including on fishing, and welcoming in this regard the discussions on the issue at the nineteenth meeting of the Informal Consultative Process, Noting the continuing gaps in knowledge and lack of data with respect to anthropogenic underwater noise, and welcoming in this respect the recent encouragement, at its thirty-third session, of the Committee on Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to consider conducting a review of the impact of anthropogenic underwater noise on marine resources and its socioeconomic consequences, Reaffirming the importance of sustainable aquaculture to food security, recognizing that, as indicated in The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018, aquaculture is already making a significant contribution to the global seafood supply, and that a further increase in that contribution is anticipated, Noting that the contribution of sustainable aquaculture to global fish supplies continues to respond to opportunities in developing countries to enhance local food security and nutrition and poverty alleviation and, together with the ef forts of other aquaculture-producing countries, will make a significant contribution to meeting future demands in fish consumption, bearing in mind article 9 of the Code, Noting in this regard the concern about the potential effects of genetically engineered aquatic fish species on the health and sustainability of wild fish stocks, Recognizing the efforts made by States and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in regulating deep-sea fisheries, while still concerned that some deep-sea fishing activities in certain areas are being carried out without full implementation of relevant paragraphs of previous resolutions, representing a threat to vulnerable marine ecosystems, Calling attention to the particular vulnerabilities of small island developing States, other developing coastal States and subsistence fishing communities whose livelihoods, economic development and food security are heavily dependent on sustainable fisheries and will suffer disproportionately if sustainable fisheries are negatively affected, Calling attention also to the circumstances affecting fisheries in many developing States, in particular African States and small island developing States, and recognizing the urgent need for capacity-building, including the transfer of marine __________________ 7 6/40 See A/73/124. 18-21628