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Fishing overcapacity
30. Calls upon States and relevant regional fisheries management
organizations, as a matter of priority, to take effective measures to improve the
management of fishing capacity and to put into effect by 2005 the International Plan
of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity, taking into account the need,
through these actions, to avoid the transfer of fishing capacity to other fisheries or
areas including, but not limited to, those areas where fisheries are overexploited or
in a depleted condition;
31. Urges those States and other entities referred to in article X, paragraph 1,
of the Compliance Agreement that have become parties to it to establish a record of
fishing vessels authorized to fish on the high seas and, pursuant to articles IV and VI
thereof, to make such a record available to the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations as a matter of priority, and urges the Food and Agriculture
Organization to quickly establish the record of fishing vessels as called for in the
Compliance Agreement;
32. Calls upon all States to assist this work of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations, to take measures to halt the increase of largescale fishing vessels in accordance with the International Plan of Action for the
Management of Fishing Capacity and to participate in the intergovernmental
technical consultation on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and fleet
overcapacity to be organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2004;
VI
Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing
33. Reaffirms the importance it attaches to continued compliance with its
resolution 46/215 and other subsequent resolutions on large-scale pelagic drift-net
fishing, and urges States and entities referred to in the Convention and in article 1,
paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement to enforce fully the measures recommended in
those resolutions;
VII
Fisheries by-catch and discards
34. Urges States, relevant international organizations and regional and
subregional fisheries management organizations and arrangements that have not
done so to take action to reduce or eliminate by-catch, catch by lost or abandoned
gear, fish discards and post-harvest losses, including juvenile fish, consistent with
international law and relevant international instruments, including the Code, and in
particular to consider measures including, as appropriate, technical measures related
to fish size, mesh size or gear, discards, closed seasons and areas and zones reserved
for selected fisheries, particularly artisanal fisheries, the establishment of
mechanisms for communicating information on areas of high concentration of
juvenile fish, taking into account the importance of ensuring confidentiality of such
information, and support for studies and research that will reduce or eliminate bycatch of juvenile fish;
35. Encourages States and entities referred to in the Convention and in
article 1, paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement to give due consideration to
participation, as appropriate, in regional and subregional organizations with
mandates to conserve non-target species taken incidentally in fishing operations,
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