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and to hold a technical consultation on the management of fishing capacity to draft guidelines for the control
and management of fishing capacities;
9. Urges States, relevant international organizations and regional and subregional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements to take action to adopt policies, apply measures, including through assistance
to developing countries, collect and exchange data and develop techniques to reduce by-catches, fish discards
and post-harvest losses consistent with international law and relevant international instruments, including the
Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries;
10. Reiterates its call on development assistance organizations to make it a high priority to support,
including through financial and/or technical assistance, efforts of developing coastal States, in particular the
least developed countries and the small island developing States, to improve the monitoring and control of
fishing activities and the enforcement of fishing regulations, including through financial and technical support
for regional and subregional meetings for this purpose;
11. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the attention of all members of
the international community, relevant intergovernmental organizations, the organizations and bodies of the
United Nations system, regional and subregional fisheries management organizations and relevant nongovernmental organizations, and invites them to provide the Secretary-General with information relevant to
the implementation of the present resolution;
12. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that reporting on all major fisheries-related activities
and instruments is effectively coordinated and duplication of activities and reporting minimized and that
relevant scientific and technical studies are disseminated to the international community, and invites the
relevant specialized agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, as well
as regional and subregional fisheries organizations and arrangements, to cooperate with the Secretary-General
to that end;
13. Further requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session
and biennially thereafter a report on further developments relating to the implementation of resolutions
46/215, 49/116, 49/118, the status and implementation of the Agreement to Promote Compliance with
International Conservation and Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas and efforts
undertaken in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations referred to in paragraph 8 of the
present resolution, taking into account the information provided by States, relevant specialized agencies, in
particular the Food and Agriculture Organization, and other appropriate organs, organizations and programmes
of the United Nations system, regional and subregional organizations and arrangements and other relevant
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations;
14. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session, under the item entitled
"Oceans and law of the sea", a sub-item entitled "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".
57th plenary meeting
26 November 1997