Our ocean, our future: call for action
A/RES/71/312
(k) Develop and implement effective adaptation and mitigation measures that
contribute to increasing and supporting resilience to ocean and coastal acidification,
sea level rise and increase in ocean temperatures, and to addressing the other
harmful impacts of climate change on the ocean as well as co astal and blue carbon
ecosystems, such as mangroves, tidal marshes, seagrass and coral reefs, and wider
interconnected ecosystems impacting on our ocean, and ensure the implementation
of relevant obligations and commitments;
(l) Enhance sustainable fisheries management, including to restore fish
stocks in the shortest time feasible at least to levels that can produce maximum
sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics, through the
implementation of science-based management measures, monitoring, control and
enforcement, supporting the consumption of fish sourced from sustainably managed
fisheries, and through precautionary and ecosystem approaches as appropriate, as
well as strengthening cooperation and coordination, including through , as
appropriate, regional fisheries management organizations, bodies and arrangements;
(m) End destructive fishing practices and illegal, unreported and unregulated
fishing, addressing their root causes and holding actors and beneficiaries
accountable by taking appropriate actions, so as to deprive them of benefits of such
activities, and effectively implementing flag State obligations as well as r elevant
port State obligations;
(n) Accelerate further work and strengthen cooperation and coordination on
the development of interoperable catch documentation schemes and traceability of
fish products;
(o) Strengthen capacity-building and technical assistance provided to smallscale and artisanal fishers in developing countries, to enable and enhance their
access to marine resources and markets and improve the socioeconomic situation of
fishers and fish workers within the context of sustainable fisheries management;
(p) Act decisively to prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which
contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to
illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such
subsidies, including through accelerating work to complete negotiations at the
World Trade Organization on this issue, recognizing that appropriate and effective
special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries
should be an integral part of those negotiations;
(q) Support the promotion and strengthening of sustainable ocean -based
economies, which, inter alia, build on sustainable activities such as fisheries,
tourism, aquaculture, maritime transportation, renewable energies, marine
biotechnology and seawater desalination as means to achieve the economic, social
and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, in particular for small
island developing States and least developed countries;
(r) Increase efforts to mobilize the means necessary for the development of
sustainable ocean-related activities and the implementation of Goal 14, particularly
in developing countries, in line with the 2030 Agenda, the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda and other relevant outcomes;
(s) Actively engage in discussions and the exchange of views in the
Preparatory Committee established by General Assembly resolution 69/292:
Development of an international legally binding instrument under the United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use
of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, so that the
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