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Monitoring, control and surveillance and compliance and enforcement
62. Calls upon States, in accordance with international law, to strengthen
implementation of or, where they do not exist, adopt comprehensive monitoring,
control and surveillance measures and compliance and enforcement schemes
individually and within those regional fisheries management organizations or
arrangements in which they participate, in order to provide an appropriate
framework for promoting compliance with agreed conservation and management
measures, and further urges enhanced coordination among all relevant States and
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in these efforts;
63. Encourages further work by competent international organizations,
including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and
subregional and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, to
develop guidelines on flag State control of fishing vessels;
64. Urges States, individually and through relevant regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, to establish mandatory vessel
monitoring, control and surveillance systems, in particular to require that vessel
monitoring systems be carried by all vessels fishing on the high seas as soon as
practicable, recalling that paragraph 62 of resolution 63/112 urged that large-scale
fishing vessels be required to carry vessel monitoring systems no later than
December 2008, and to share information on fisheries enforcement matters;
65. Calls upon States, individually and through regional fisheries
management organizations or arrangements, to strengthen or establish, consistent
with national and international law, positive or negative lists of vessels fishing
within the areas covered by relevant regional fisheries management organizations
and arrangements in order to promote compliance with conservation and
management measures and to identify products from illegal, unreported and
unregulated catches, and encourages improved coordination among all States and
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in sharing and using
this information, taking into account the forms of cooperation with developing
States as set out in article 25 of the Agreement;
66. 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 a comprehensive global record of fishing vessels, refrigerated transport
vessels, and supply vessels;5
67. Requests States and relevant international bodies to develop, in
accordance with international law, more effective measures to trace fish and fishery
products to enable importing States to identify fish or fishery products caught in a
manner that undermines international conservation and management measures
agreed in accordance with international law, taking into account the special
requirements of developing States and the forms of cooperation with developing
States as set out in article 25 of the Agreement, and at the same time to recognize
the importance of market access, in accordance with provisions 11.2.4, 11.2.5 and
11.2.6 of the Code, for fish and fishery products caught in a manner that is in
conformity with such international measures;
68. Requests States to take the necessary measures, consistent with
international law, to help to prevent fish and fishery products caught in a manner
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