United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/14
Distr.: General
21 January 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 52 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 24 November 2003
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/58/L.18 and Add.1)]
58/14.
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
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 46/215 of 20 December 1991, 49/116 and 49/118 of
19 December 1994, 50/25 of 5 December 1995 and 57/142 of 12 December 2002, as
well as other resolutions on large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized
fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the high seas, fisheries by-catch and
discards, and other developments, and its resolutions 56/13 of 28 November 2001
and 57/143 of 12 December 2002 on the 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 (“the Agreement”), 1
Recalling the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the
Law of the Sea (“the Convention”), 2 and bearing in mind the relationship between
the Convention and the Agreement,
Recognizing that, in accordance with the Convention, the Agreement sets forth
provisions concerning the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks
and highly migratory fish stocks, including provisions on subregional and regional
cooperation in enforcement, binding dispute settlement and the rights and
obligations of States in authorizing the use of vessels flying their flags for fishing
on the high seas,
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1
International Fisheries Instruments with Index (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.98.V.11), sect. I;
see also A/CONF.164/37.
2
See The Law of the Sea: Official Texts of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of
10 December 1982 and of the Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 with Index and Excerpts from the Final Act of the
Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.V.10).
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