A/RES/73/125
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
science organizations, and relevant non-governmental organizations, in accordance
with past practice, to attend the fourteenth round of informal consultations of States
parties to the Agreement, while relevant scientific institutions may request an
invitation to participate in the consultations as observers;
63. Also requests the Secretary-General to invite States parties to the
Agreement, as well as States and entities referred to in the Convention and in article 1,
paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement not parties to the Agreement and others invited to
participate in the consultations as observers pursuant to paragraph 62 of the present
resolution, to submit their views on the topic “Performance reviews of regional
fisheries management organizations and arrangements”, together with a translation
into English, to the Division, and requests the Division to post such views, unedited
and in the languages in which they are received, on its website, in accordance with
past practice;
64. Invites the chairperson of the informal consultations of States parties to
the Agreement to circulate widely, through the Secretariat, an informal summary of
the discussions at the fourteenth round;
65. Reaffirms its request that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations initiate arrangements with States for the collection and dissemination
of data on fishing in the high seas by vessels flying their flag at the subregional and
regional levels where no such arrangements exist;
66. Also reaffirms its request that the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations revise its global fisheries statistics database to provide information
on straddling fish stocks, highly migratory fish stocks and discrete high seas fish
stocks on the basis of where the catch is taken;
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Related fisheries instruments
67. Emphasizes the importance of the effective implementation of the
provisions of the Compliance Agreement, 5 and urges continued efforts in this regard;
68. Calls upon all States and other entities referred to in article X,
paragraph 1, of the Compliance Agreement that have not yet become parties to that
Agreement to do so as a matter of priority and, in the interim, to consider applying it
provisionally;
69. Urges States and subregional and regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements to implement and promote the application of the Code
within their areas of competence;
70. 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;
71. Encourages States, in this regard, to maintain their commitment in
reporting on their implementation of the Code, reiterates the importance of
responding to the web-based questionnaire of the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations for monitoring the implementation of the Code and the
international plans of action and strategies, and notes that the information collected
could also be relevant to the implementation of related targets of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development;
72. Notes the publication by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations of Technical Guidelines for Fishing Operations: best practices to
improve safety at sea in the fisheries sector;
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