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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40. Emphasizes the importance of those provisions of the Agreement relating
to bilateral, subregional and regional cooperation in enforc ement, and urges continued
efforts in this regard;
41. Urges States parties to the Agreement, in accordance with article 21,
paragraph 4, thereof, to inform, either directly or through the relevant subregional or
regional fisheries management organization or arrangement, all States whose vessels
fish on the high seas in the same subregion or region of the form of identification
issued by those States parties to officials duly authorized to carry out boarding and
inspection functions in accordance with articles 21 and 22 of the Agreement;
42. Also urges States parties to the Agreement, in accordance with article 21,
paragraph 4, thereof, to designate an appropriate authority to receive notifications
pursuant to article 21 and to give due publicity to such designation through the
relevant subregional or regional fisheries management organization or arrangement;
43. Invites regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements
which have not yet done so to adopt procedures for high seas boarding and in spection
that are consistent with articles 21 and 22 of the Agreement, including, inter alia,
those to ensure the safety of the crew and the inspectors;
44. Calls upon States, individually and, as appropriate, through subregional
and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements with competence
over discrete high seas fish stocks, to adopt the measures necessary to ensure the long term conservation, management and sustainable use of such stocks in accordance with
the Convention and consistent with the Code and the general principles set forth in
the Agreement;
45. Invites States to assist developing States in enhancing their participation
in regional fisheries management organizations or arrangements, including by
facilitating access to fisheries for straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish
stocks, in accordance with article 25, paragraph 1 (b), of the Agreement, taking into
account the need to ensure that such access benefits the developing States concerned
and their nationals;
46. Urges States parties to the Agreement, directly or through regional
fisheries management organizations and arrangements, to take into account the
special requirements of developing States, including small island developing States
as highlighted in the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, in
giving effect to the duty to cooperate in the establishment of conservation and
management measures for straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks,
including the need to ensure, where appropriate, in accordance with article 24,
paragraph 2 (c), of the Agreement, that such measures do not transfer a
disproportionate burden of conservation action onto developing States, and notes in
this regard ongoing efforts to better develop a common under standing of this concept;
47. Calls upon States and international financial institutions and organizations
of the United Nations system to provide assistance according to Part VII of the
Agreement, including, if appropriate, the development of special fin ancial
mechanisms or instruments to assist developing States, in particular the least
developed among them and small island developing States, to enable them to develop
their national capacity to exploit fishery resources, including developing their
domestically flagged fishing fleet, value-added processing and the expansion of their
economic base in the fishing industry, consistent with the duty to ensure the proper
conservation and management of fisheries resources;
48. Urges States, intergovernmental organizations, international financial
institutions, national institutions and non-governmental organizations, as well as
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