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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account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines
on the Transfer of Marine Technology;
208. Also recalls that, in “The future we want”, States urged the identification
and mainstreaming by 2014 of strategies that further assist developing countries, in
particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, in
developing their national capacity to conserve, sustainably manage and realize the
benefits of sustainable fisheries, including through improved market access for fish
products from developing countries;
209. Encourages increased capacity-building and technical assistance by
States, international financial institutions and relevant intergovernmental
organizations and bodies for fishers, in particular small -scale fishers, in developing
countries, and in particular small island developing States, consistent with
environmental sustainability, in recognition of the fact that food security and
livelihoods may depend on fisheries;
210. Encourages States to cooperate closely, directly or through the United
Nations system, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, with a view to enhancing capacity-building of developing States, including
coastal States, in particular small island developing States, in the field of fisheries
and aquaculture through education and training;
211. Recognizes, in this regard, the work of the United Nations University
Fisheries Training Programme in Iceland and its contribution to training for
developing States, in particular small island developing States, and emphasizes the
need for the continuation and strengthening of this training for developing States;
212. Encourages the international community to enhance the opportunities for
sustainable development in developing countries, in par ticular the least developed
countries, small island developing States and coastal African States, by encouraging
greater participation of those States in authorized fisheries activities being
undertaken within areas under their national jurisdiction, in ac cordance with the
Convention, by distant-water fishing nations in order to achieve better economic
returns for developing countries from their fisheries resources within areas under
their national jurisdiction and an enhanced role in regional fisheries man agement, as
well as by enhancing the ability of developing countries to develop their own
fisheries, as well as to participate in high seas fisheries, including access to such
fisheries, in conformity with international law, in particular the Convention an d the
Agreement, and taking into account article 5 of the Code;
213. Encourages the parties to the Agreement on Port State Measures to
Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing to
convene an inception meeting, as well as to establish and convene the ad hoc working
group under article 21 of that Agreement, to develop a framework for capacitydevelopment assistance;
214. Requests distant-water fishing nations, when negotiating access agreements
and arrangements with developing coastal States, to do so on an equitable and
sustainable basis and to take into account their legitimate expectation to fully
benefit from the sustainable use of the natural resources of their exclusive economic
zones, to ensure that vessels flying their flag comply with the laws and regulations
of the developing coastal States adopted in accordance with international law and to
give greater attention to fish processing and fish -processing facilities within the
national jurisdiction of the developing coastal State to assist the realization of the
benefits from the development of fisheries resources and also to the transfer of
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