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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/29
26 January 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 39 (c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/52/L.30 and Add.1)]
52/29.
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
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 46/215 of 20 December 1991, 49/116 and 49/118 of 19 December 1994 as
well as other relevant resolutions,
Reaffirming also its resolution 51/36 of 9 December 1996 on large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing and
its impact on the living marine resources of the world's oceans and seas, unauthorized fishing in zones of
national jurisdiction and its impact on the living marine resources of the world's oceans and seas, and
fisheries by-catch and discards and their impact on the sustainable use of the world's living marine resources,
Conscious of the need to promote and facilitate international cooperation, especially at the regional and
subregional levels, in order to ensure the sustainable development and use of the living marine resources of
the world's oceans and seas, consistent with the present resolution,
Mindful that 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 Stocks1 provides in its general principles that States shall minimize
pollution, waste, discards, catch by lost or abandoned gear, catch of non-target species, both fish and non-fish
species, and impacts on associated or dependent species, in particular endangered species, through measures
including, to the extent practicable, the development and use of selective, environmentally safe and costeffective fishing gear and techniques, and further provides that States shall take measures, including the
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A/CONF.164/37; see also A/50/550, annex I.
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