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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arrangements have made provisions for the International Maritime Organization
number to be compulsory in their convention areas for all eligible vessels, and
encourages those regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements
which have not yet done so to do the same;
91. Requests States and relevant international bodies to develop, in
accordance with international law, more effective measures to trace fish and fishery
products to enable importing States to identify fish or fishery products caught in a
manner that undermines international conservation and management measures
agreed in accordance with international law, taking into account the special
requirements of developing States and the forms of cooperation with developing
States as set out in article 25 of the Agreement, and at the same time to recognize
the importance of market access, in accordance with provisions 11.2.4, 11.2.5 and
11.2.6 of the Code, for fish and fishery products caught in a manner that is in
conformity with such international measures;
92. Requests States to take the necessary measures, consistent with
international law, to help to prevent fish and fishery products caught in a manner
that undermines applicable conservation and management measures adopted in
accordance with international law from entering international trade;
93. Encourages States to establish and undertake cooperative surveillance
and enforcement activities in accordance with international law to strengthen and
enhance efforts to ensure compliance with conservation and management measures,
and prevent and deter illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing;
94. Urges States, directly and through regional fisheries management
organizations or arrangements, to develop and adopt effective monitoring, control
and surveillance measures for trans-shipment, as appropriate, in particular at-sea
trans-shipment, in order to, inter alia, monitor compliance, to collect and verify
fisheries data, and to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing activities, in accordance with international law and, in parallel,
to encourage and support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations in studying the current practices of trans-shipment and produce a set of
guidelines for this purpose;
95. Expresses its appreciation for financial contributions from States to
improve the capacity of the existing voluntary International Monitoring, Control and
Surveillance Network for Fisheries-related Activities, and encourages States to join
and actively participate in the Network and to consider supporting, when
appropriate, its transformation in accordance with international law into an
international unit with dedicated resources to further assist Network members,
taking into account the forms of cooperation with developing States as set out in
article 25 of the Agreement;
96. Encourages participation in the fifth Global Fisheries Enforcement
Training Workshop, to be held in Auckland, New Zealand, in March 2016, hosted by
the International Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Network for Fisheriesrelated Activities, in order to share information, experiences and technologies, foster
coordination and improve skills among enforcement officials;
97. Encourages States, individually and through relevant international
bodies, to improve the understanding of the causes and impacts of forced labour and
human trafficking in the fishing and aquaculture industries, including processing
and related industries, and to further consider actions to combat these practices,
including raising awareness of the issue;
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