A/RES/62/177
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 February 2008
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 77 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/62/L.24 and Add.1)]
62/177. 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 of
19 December 1994, and 50/24 and 50/25 of 5 December 1995, as well as its
resolutions 56/13 of 28 November 2001, 58/14 of 24 November 2003, 59/25 of
17 November 2004, 60/31 of 29 November 2005 and 61/105 of 8 December 2006,
and other relevant resolutions,
Recalling the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the
Law of the Sea (“the Convention”), 1 and bearing in mind the relationship between
the Convention and 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”), 2
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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 compliance and
enforcement by the flag State and 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, and
specific provisions to address the requirements of developing States in relation to
the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory
fish stocks and the development of fisheries for such stocks,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
Ibid., vol. 2167, No. 37924.