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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to develop an evaluation framework to assess the conformity of public and private
ecolabelling schemes through the Guidelines for the Ecolabelling of Fish and
Fishery Products from Marine Capture Fisheries;
68. Also notes the concerns about possible connections between transnational
organized crime and illegal fishing in certain regions of the world, and encourages
States, including through the appropriate international forums and organizations, to
study the causes and methods of and contributing factors to illegal fishing to
increase knowledge and understanding of those possible connections, and to make
the findings publicly available, and in this regard takes note of the study issued by
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on transnational organized crime in
the fishing industry, bearing in mind the distinct legal regimes and remedies under
international law applicable to illegal fishing and transnational organized crime;
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Monitoring, control and surveillance and compliance and enforcement
69. Calls upon States, in accordance with international law, to strengthen
implementation of or, where they do not exist, adopt comprehensive monitoring,
control and surveillance measures and compliance and enforcement schemes
individually and within those regional fisheries management organizations or
arrangements in which they participate, in order to provide an appropriate
framework for promoting compliance with agreed conservation and management
measures, and further urges enhanced coordination among all relevant States and
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in these efforts;
70. Encourages further work by competent international organizations,
including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and
subregional and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, to
develop guidelines on flag State control of fishing vessels;
71. Urges States, individually and through relevant regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to establish mandatory vessel
monitoring, control and surveillance systems, in particular to require that vessel
monitoring systems be carried by all vessels fishing on the high seas as soon as
practicable, recalling that paragraph 62 of resolution 63/112 of 5 December 2008
urged that large-scale fishing vessels be required to carry vessel monitoring systems
no later than December 2008, and to share information on fisheries enforcement
matters;
72. Calls upon States, individually and through regional fisheries
management organizations or arrangements, to strengthen or establish, consistent
with national and international law, positive or negative lists of vessels fishing
within the areas covered by relevant regional fisheries management organizations
and arrangements in order to promote compliance with conservation and
management measures and to identify products from illegal, unreported and
unregulated catches, and encourages improved coordination among all States and
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in sharing and using
this information, taking into account the forms of cooperation with developing
States as set out in article 25 of the Agreement;
73. Encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, in cooperation with States, regional economic integration organizations, the
International Maritime Organization and, as appropriate, regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to expedite efforts to develop and
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