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 16. Acknowledges that the Committee on Fisheries at its thirtieth session appreciated the review on the implementation of the International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks and called for further analysis and for the inclusion of market States, and an improved record of data collection; 17. Calls upon States to take immediate and concerted action to improve the implementation of and compliance with existing regional fisheries management organization or arrangement and national measures that regulate shark fisheries and incidental catch of sharks, in particular those measures which prohibit or restrict fisheries conducted solely for the purpose of harvesting shark fins and, where necessary, to consider taking other measures, as appropriate, such as requiring that all sharks be landed with each fin naturally attached; 18. Calls upon regional fisheries management organizations with the competence to regulate highly migratory species to strengthen or establish precautionary, science-based conservation and management measures, as appropriate, for sharks taken in fisheries within their convention areas consistent with the International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks; 19. Notes with satisfaction the adoption of the Conservation Plan under the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks, under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, 12 at the first Meeting of Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks, held in Bonn, Germany, from 24 to 27 September 2012, and invites range States to consider signing and cooperating as partners, as referred to in the memorandum of understanding, and to consider associating themselves with the memorandum of understanding; 20. Urges States to eliminate barriers to trade in fish and fisheries products which are not consistent with their rights and obligations under the World Trade Organization agreements, taking into account the importance of the trade in fish and fisheries products, particularly for developing countries; 21. Recalls that in “The future we want”, States committed themselves to observing the need to ensure access to fisheries and the importance of access to markets by subsistence, small-scale and artisanal fisherfolk and women fish workers, as well as indigenous peoples and their communities, particularly in developing countries, especially small island developing States; 22. Urges States and relevant international and national organizations to provide for the participation of small-scale fishery stakeholders in related policy development and fisheries management strategies in order to achieve long-term sustainability for such fisheries, consistent with the duty to ensure the proper conservation and management of fisheries resources; 23. Encourages States, either directly or through competent and appropriate subregional, regional or global organizations and arrangements, to analyse, as appropriate, the impact of fishing for marine species corresponding to low trophic levels; 24. Welcomes, in this regard, the fact that the Committee on Fisheries at its thirtieth session encouraged further studies of the impact of industrial fishing activities on species corresponding to low trophic levels, in order to support the _______________ 12 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1651, No. 28395. 9/30