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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
monitoring implementation of the Code and the international plans of action and
strategies by developing a web-based questionnaire, and highlights the importance
of responding to the questionnaire;
54. Encourages the development of best-practice guidelines for safety at sea
in connection with marine fisheries by the competent international organizations;
55. 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
56. 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;
57. 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 enforcement systems;
58. 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 or supporting
vessels engaging in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities, including
those vessels listed by regional fisheries management organizations or arrangements
as engaged in those activities, and to facilitate mutual assistance to ensure that such
actions can be investigated and proper sanctions imposed;
59. Also urges States to take effective measures, at the national, subregional,
regional and global levels, to deter the activities, including illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing, of any vessel which undermines conservation and management
measures that have been adopted by subregional and regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements in accordance with international law;
60. Calls upon States not to permit vessels flying their flag to engage in
fishing on the high seas or in areas under the national jurisdiction of other States,
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