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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
55. Urges States to develop and implement, as a matter of priority, national
and, as appropriate, regional plans of action to put into effect the international plans
of action of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
56. Welcomes in this regard the work undertaken by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to improve the response rate for
monitoring implementation of the Code and the international plans of action and
strategies by developing a web-based questionnaire, and highlights the importanc e
of responding to the questionnaire;
57. Encourages the development of best-practice guidelines for safety at sea
in connection with marine fisheries by the competent international organizations;
58. Encourages States to consider signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or
acceding to the Cape Town Agreement of 2012 on the Implementation of the
Provisions of the Torremolinos Protocol of 1993 relating to the Torremolinos
International Convention for the Safety of Fishing Vessels, 1977;
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Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
59. Emphasizes once again its serious concern that illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing remains one of the greatest threats to fish stocks and marine
ecosystems and continues to have serious and major implications for the
conservation and management of ocean resources, as well as the food security and
the economies of many States, particularly developing States, and renews its call
upon States to comply fully with all existing obligations and to combat such fishing
and urgently to take all steps necessary to implement the International Plan of
Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing;
60. Recalls in this regard that in “The future we want”, States acknowledged
that illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing deprive many countries of a crucial
natural resource and remain a persistent threat to their sustainable development and
recommitted to eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing as advanced in
the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, and to prevent and combat those
practices, including by developing and implementing national and regional action
plans in accordance with the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and
Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, implementing, in
accordance with international law, effective and coordinated measures by coastal
States, flag States, port States, chartering nations and the States of nationality of the
beneficial owners and others who support or engage in illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing by identifying vessels engaged in such fishing and by depriving
offenders of the benefits accruing from it, as well as by cooperating with developing
countries to systematically identify needs and build capacity, including support for
monitoring, control, surveillance, compliance and enfo rcement systems;
61. Notes with satisfaction the development of an increasing number of
national plans of action to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing, and calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider
developing such plans;
62. Urges States to exercise effective control over their nationals, including
beneficial owners, and vessels flying their flag, in order to prevent and deter them
from engaging in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities o r supporting
vessels engaging in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities, including
those vessels listed by regional fisheries management organizations or arrangements
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