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
A/RES/67/79
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Fishing overcapacity
81. Calls upon States to commit themselves to urgently reducing the capacity
of the world’s fishing fleets to levels commensurate with the sustainability of fish
stocks, through the establishment of target levels and plans or other appropriate
mechanisms for ongoing capacity assessment, while avoiding the transfer of fishing
capacity to other fisheries or areas in a manner that undermines the sustainable
management of fish stocks, including those areas where fish stocks are
overexploited or in a depleted condition, and recognizing in this context the
legitimate rights of developing States to develop their fisheries for straddling fish
stocks and highly migratory fish stocks consistent with article 25 of the Agreement,
article 5 of the Code, and paragraph 10 of the International Plan of Action for the
Management of Fishing Capacity of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations;
82. Reiterates its call upon States, individually and through regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to ensure that the urgent actions
required in the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity
are undertaken expeditiously and that its implementation is facilitated without delay;
83. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to
report on the state of progress in the implementation of the International Plan of
Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity, as provided for in paragraph 48 of
the Plan of Action;
84. Calls upon States individually and, as appropriate, through subregional
and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements with
competence to regulate highly migratory species, urgently to address global fishing
capacity for tunas, inter alia, in a way that recognizes the legitimate rights of
developing States, in particular small island developing States, to participate in and
benefit from such fisheries, taking into account the recommendations of the Joint
Tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations International Workshop on
RFMO Management of Tuna Fisheries, held in Brisbane, Australia, from 29 June to
1 July 2010 and the recommendations of the third joint meeting of tuna regional
fisheries management organizations and arrangements, in July 2011;
85. Encourages those States which are cooperating to establish subregional
and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, taking into
account the best scientific information available as well as the precautionary
approach, to exercise voluntary restraint of fishing effort levels in those areas that
will come under the regulation of the future organizations and arrangements until
adequate regional conservation and management measures are adopted and
implemented, taking into account the need to ensure the long-term conservation,
management and sustainable use of the relevant fish stocks and to prevent
significant adverse impacts on vulnerable marine ecosystems;
86. Urges States to eliminate subsidies that contribute to overfishing and
overcapacity and to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, including by
accelerating work to complete World Trade Organization negotiations on fisheries
subsidies in accordance with the 2001 Doha Ministerial Declaration 15 to clarify and
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