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
A/RES/72/72
Guidelines for the Ecolabelling of Fish and Fishery Products from Marine Capture
Fisheries;
98. Also notes the concerns about possible connections between transnational
organized crime and illegal fishing in certain regions of the world, and encourages
States, including through the appropriate international forums and organizations, to
study the causes and methods of and contributing factors to illegal fishing to increase
knowledge and understanding of those possible connections, and to make the findings
publicly available, and in this regard takes note of the study issued by the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on transnational organized crime in the fishing
industry, bearing in mind the distinct legal regimes and remedies under international
law applicable to illegal fishing and transnational organized crime;
V
Monitoring, control and surveillance and compliance and enforcement
99. Calls upon States, in accordance with international law, to strengthen
implementation of or, where they do not exist, adopt comprehensive monitoring,
control and surveillance measures and compliance and enforcement schemes
individually and within those regional fisheries management organizations or
arrangements in which they participate, in order to provide an appropriate framework
for promoting compliance with agreed conservation and management measures, and
further urges enhanced coordination among all relevant States and regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements in these efforts;
100. Welcomes the fact that the Committee on Fisheries has urged its members
to start implementing the Voluntary Guidelines for Flag State Performance 23 as soon
as possible, and urges all flag States to implement those Guidelines as soon as
possible, including, as a first step, by carrying out a voluntary assessment;
101. Encourages further work by competent international organizations,
including subregional and regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements, to develop guidelines on flag State control of fishing vessels;
102. Urges States, individually and through relevant regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to establish mandatory vessel
monitoring, control and surveillance systems, in particular to require that vessel
monitoring systems be carried by all vessels fishing on the high seas as soon as
practicable, recalling that in paragraph 62 of resolution 63/112 of 5 December 2008
it urged that large-scale fishing vessels be required to carry vessel monitoring systems
no later than December 2008, and to share information on fisheries enforcement
matters;
103. Calls upon States, individually and through regional fisheries management
organizations or arrangements, to strengthen or establish, consistent with nat ional and
international law, positive or negative lists of vessels fishing within the areas covered
by relevant regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in order
to promote compliance with conservation and management measures and to ide ntify
products from illegal, unreported and unregulated catches, and encourages improved
coordination among all States and regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements in sharing and using this information, taking into account the forms of
cooperation with developing States as set out in article 25 of the Agreement;
104. Encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
in cooperation with States, regional economic integration organizations, the
__________________
23
20/38
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document COFI/2014/4.2/Rev.1,
appendix II.
17-21818