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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135. Urges States, individually or through regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements, to enhance their efforts to apply an ecosystem
approach to fisheries, taking into account paragraph 30 (d) of the Johannesburg Plan
of Implementation;
136. Encourages States, individually or through regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements and other relevant international
organizations, to work to ensure that fisheries and other ecosystem data collection is
performed in a coordinated and integrated manner, facilitating incorporation into
global observation initiatives, where appropriate;
137. Calls upon States and regional fisheries management organizations or
arrangements, working in cooperation with other relevant organizations, including
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission and the World Meteorological Organization, to adopt,
as appropriate, measures to protect ocean data buoy systems moored in areas beyond
national jurisdiction from actions that impair their operation;
138. Encourages States to increase scientific research on the marine
ecosystem in accordance with international law;
139. Calls upon States, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations and other specialized agencies, subregional and regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, where appropriate, and other
appropriate intergovernmental bodies to cooperate in achieving sustainable
aquaculture, including through information exchange, developing equivalent
standards on such issues as aquatic animal health and human health and safety
concerns, assessing the potential positive and negative impacts of aquaculture,
including socioeconomics, on the marine and coastal environment, including
biodiversity, and adopting relevant methods and techniques to minimize and
mitigate adverse effects, and in this regard encourages the implementation of the
2007 Strategy and Outline Plan for Improving Information on Status and Trends of
Aquaculture of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, as a
framework for the improvement and understanding of aquaculture status and trends;
140. Calls upon States to take action immediately, individually and through
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, and consistent with
the precautionary approach and ecosystem approaches, to continue to implement the
2008 International Guidelines for the Management of Deep-Sea Fisheries in the High
Seas of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (the Guidelines)
in order to sustainably manage fish stocks and protect vulnerable marine ecosystems,
including seamounts, hydrothermal vents and cold water corals, from destructive
fishing practices, recognizing the immense importance and value of deep-sea
ecosystems and the biodiversity they contain;
141. Recalls that in “The future we want”, States committed to enhance
actions to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems from significant adverse impacts,
including through the effective use of impact assessments, consistent with
international law, the applicable international instruments and relevant General
Assembly resolutions and guidelines of the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations;
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