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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
Record, and encourages States, including through regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements, to provide the necessary data and regular updates to
the Global Record;
111. Also welcomes the decision by the International Maritime Organization, in
resolution A.1117(30) of 6 December 2017, to extend, beyond the first phase of the
Global Record, the International Maritime Organization Ship Identification Number
Scheme to fishing vessels of steel and non-steel hull construction and to all motorized
inboard fishing vessels of less than 100 gross tonnage down to a size limit of
12 metres in length overall authorized to operate outside waters under the national
jurisdiction of the flag State, and welcomes the fact that several regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements have made provisions for the
International Maritime Organization number to be compulsor y in their convention
areas for all eligible vessels, and encourages those regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements which have not yet done so to do the same;
112. Requests States and relevant international bodies to develop, in accordance
with international law, more effective measures to trace fish and fishery products to
enable importing States to identify fish or fishery products caught in a manner that
undermines international conservation and management measures agreed in
accordance with international law, taking into account the special requirements of
developing States and the forms of cooperation with developing States as set out in
article 25 of the Agreement, and at the same time to recognize the importance of
market access, in accordance with provisions 11.2.4, 11.2.5 and 11.2.6 of the Code,
for fish and fishery products caught in a manner that is in conformity with such
international measures;
113. Requests States to take the necessary measures, consistent with
international law, to help to prevent fish and fishery products caught in a manner that
undermines applicable conservation and management measures adopted in
accordance with international law from entering inter national trade;
114. Encourages States to establish and undertake cooperative surveillance and
enforcement activities in accordance with international law to strengthen and enhance
efforts to ensure compliance with conservation and management measures, an d
prevent and deter illegal, unreported and unregulated fi shing;
115. Urges States, directly and through regional fisheries management
organizations or arrangements, to develop and adopt effective monitoring, control and
surveillance measures for trans-shipment, as appropriate, in particular at-sea
trans-shipment, in order to, inter alia, monitor compliance, to collect and verify
fisheries data, and to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated
fishing activities, in accordance with international law and, in parallel, to encourage
and support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in studying
the current practices of trans-shipment and produce a set of guidelines for this
purpose;
116. Takes note, in this regard, that the Committee on Fisheries, at its thirtythird session, welcomed the Global Study on Trans-shipment by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and called for in -depth studies to
support the development of guidelines on best practices for regulating, monitoring
and controlling trans-shipment;
117. 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
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