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that undermines applicable conservation and management measures adopted in
accordance with international law from entering international trade;
69. Welcomes the decision of the Committee on Fisheries at its twenty-eighth
session that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations should
develop best practice guidelines for catch documentation schemes and for
traceability for consideration by the Sub-Committee on Fish Trade at its next
session;5
70. Encourages States to establish and undertake cooperative surveillance
and enforcement activities in accordance with international law to strengthen and
enhance efforts to ensure compliance with conservation and management measures,
and prevent and deter illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing;
71. Urges States, directly and through regional fisheries management
organizations or arrangements, to develop and adopt effective monitoring, control
and surveillance measures for trans-shipment, as appropriate, in particular at-sea
trans-shipment, in order to, inter alia, monitor compliance, collect and verify
fisheries data, and to prevent and suppress illegal, unreported and unregulated
fishing activities, in accordance with international law; and, in parallel, to
encourage and support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
in studying the current practices of trans-shipment and produce a set of guidelines
for this purpose;
72. Expresses its appreciation for financial contributions from States to
improve the capacity of the existing voluntary International Monitoring, Control and
Surveillance Network for Fisheries-Related Activities, and encourages States to join
and actively participate in the Network and to consider supporting, when
appropriate, its transformation in accordance with international law into an
international unit with dedicated resources to further assist Network members,
taking into account the forms of cooperation with developing States as set out in
article 25 of the Agreement;
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Fishing overcapacity
73. Calls upon States to commit themselves to urgently reducing the capacity
of the world’s fishing fleets to levels commensurate with the sustainability of fish
stocks, through the establishment of target levels and plans or other appropriate
mechanisms for ongoing capacity assessment, while avoiding the transfer of fishing
capacity to other fisheries or areas in a manner that undermines the sustainable
management of fish stocks, including, inter alia, those areas where fish stocks are
overexploited or in a depleted condition, and recognizing in this context the
legitimate rights of developing States to develop their fisheries for straddling fish
stocks and highly migratory fish stocks consistent with article 25 of the Agreement,
article 5 of the Code, and paragraph 10 of the International Plan of Action for the
Management of Fishing Capacity;7
74. Reiterates its call upon States, individually and through regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to ensure that the urgent actions
required in the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity
are undertaken expeditiously and that its implementation is facilitated without delay;
75. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to
report on the state of progress in the implementation of the International Plan of
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