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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35. Encourages States, either directly or through competent and appropriate
subregional, regional or global organizations and arrangements, to analyse, as
appropriate, the impact of fishing for marine species corresponding to low trophic
levels;
36. Welcomes, in this regard, the initiation of further studies by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations of the impact of industrial fishing
activities on species corresponding to low trophic levels;
37. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to
assess and consider the potential risk and effects of genetically engineered fish
species on the health and sustainability of wild fish stocks and on the biodiversity of
the aquatic environment and to provide guidance consistent with the Code, on
managing risk and minimizing harmful impacts in this regard;
38. Also invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
in consultation with other relevant international organizations, including the
International Maritime Organization, to promote awareness and cooperation to
develop and strengthen capacity to prevent, minimize and mitigate the adverse
impacts of invasive alien species on biodiversity, including fish stocks;
39. Calls upon States to consider potential environmental and socioeconomic
impacts of anthropogenic underwater noise from different activities in the marine
environment and to address and mitigate such impacts, taking into account the best
available scientific information, the precautionary approach and ecosystem
approaches, as appropriate;
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Implementation of 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
40. Welcomes the most recent ratification and accession to the Agreement, and
calls upon all States, and entities referred to in the Convention and in article 1,
paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement, that have not done so to ratify or accede to the
Agreement and in the interim to consider applying it provisionally;
41. Calls upon States parties to the Agreement to effectively implement, as a
matter of priority, the provisions of the Agreement through their national legislation
and through regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in which
they participate;
42. Emphasizes the importance of those provisions of the Agreement relati ng
to bilateral, subregional and regional cooperation in enforcement, and urges continued
efforts in this regard;
43. Urges States parties to the Agreement, in accordance with article 21,
paragraph 4, thereof, to inform, either directly or through the rel evant subregional or
regional fisheries management organization or arrangement, all States whose vessels
fish on the high seas in the same subregion or region of the form of identification
issued by those States parties to officials duly authorized to carr y out boarding and
inspection functions in accordance with articles 21 and 22 of the Agreement;
44. Also urges States parties to the Agreement, in accordance with article 21,
paragraph 4, thereof, to designate an appropriate authority to receive notificat ions
pursuant to article 21 and to give due publicity to such designation through the
relevant subregional or regional fisheries management organization or arrangement;
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