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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of their economic base in the fishing industry, consistent with the duty to ensure the
proper conservation and management of fisheries resources;
34. Encourages States, intergovernmental organizations, international
financial institutions, national institutions and non-governmental organizations, as
well as natural and juridical persons, to make voluntary financial contributions to
the Assistance Fund established under Part VII of the Agreement;
35. Encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
and the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the Office of Legal
Affairs of the Secretariat (the Division) to continue their efforts to publicize the
availability of assistance through the Assistance Fund;
36. Encourages accelerated progress by States, individually and, as
appropriate, through subregional and regional fisheries management organizations
and arrangements, regarding the recommendations of the Review Conference on the
Agreement, held in New York from 22 to 26 May 2006, 11 and the identification of
emerging priorities;
37. Encourages States, individually and, as appropriate, through subregional
and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, to consider
implementing, as appropriate, the recommendations of the resumed Review
Conference, held in New York from 24 to 28 May 2010; 12
38. Recalls paragraph 6 of its resolution 56/13 of 28 November 2001, and
requests the Secretary-General to convene, in April 2014, in accordance with past
practice, a tenth round of informal consultations of States Parties to the Agreement
for a duration of two days to consider, inter alia, regional, subregional and global
implementation of the Agreement and initial preparatory work for the resumption of
the Review Conference;
39. Requests the Secretary-General to invite States, and entities referred to in
the Convention and in article 1, paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement, that are not party
to the Agreement, as well as the United Nations Development Programme, the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other specialized agencies,
the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and other relevant international
financial institutions, subregional and regional fisheries management organizations
and arrangements, other fisheries bodies, other relevant intergovernmental bodies
and relevant non-governmental organizations, in accordance with past practice, to
attend the tenth round of informal consultations of States Parties to the Agreement
as observers;
40. Reaffirms its request that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations initiate arrangements with States for the collection and
dissemination of data on fishing in the high seas by vessels flying their flag at the
subregional and regional levels where no such arrangements exist;
41. Also reaffirms its request that the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations revise its global fisheries statistics database to provide
information on straddling fish stocks, highly migratory fish stocks and discrete high
seas fish stocks on the basis of where the catch is taken;
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See A/CONF.210/2006/15, annex.
See A/CONF.210/2010/7, annex.
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