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46. Urges States, individually and through regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements, to adopt and implement internationally agreed
market-related measures in accordance with international law, including principles,
rights and obligations established in World Trade Organization agreements, as called
for in the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal,
Unreported and Unregulated Fishing;
V
Fishing overcapacity
47. Calls upon States and relevant regional and subregional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, as a matter of priority, to take
effective measures to improve the management of fishing capacity and to implement
the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity of the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, taking into account the
need, through these actions, to avoid the transfer of fishing capacity to other
fisheries or areas including, but not limited to, those areas where fish stocks are
overexploited or in a depleted condition;
48. Reaffirms the 2005 Rome Declaration on Fisheries and the Tsunami,8
which emphasized, inter alia, the need for fisheries and aquaculture rehabilitation in
the affected areas to be in line with the principles of the Code and stressed that
rehabilitation efforts, including transfer of vessels, must proceed under the
leadership and control of the affected nations and must ensure that the fishing
capacity that is being rebuilt is commensurate with the productive capacity of the
fisheries resources and their sustainable utilization;
49. Urges States to eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported
and unregulated fishing and to fishing overcapacity, while completing the efforts
undertaken at the World Trade Organization in accordance with the Doha
Declaration on the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights and Public Health 12 to clarify and improve its disciplines on fisheries
subsidies, taking into account the importance of this sector, including small-scale
and artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, to developing countries;
VI
Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing
50. Reaffirms the importance it attaches to continued compliance with its
resolution 46/215 and other subsequent resolutions on large-scale pelagic drift-net
fishing, and urges States and entities referred to in the Convention and in article 1,
paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement to enforce fully the measures recommended in
those resolutions;
VII
Fisheries by-catch and discards
51. Urges States, regional and subregional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements and other relevant international organizations that
have not done so to take action to reduce or eliminate by-catch, catch by lost or
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http://docsonline.wto.org.
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WT/MIN(01)/DEC/2.
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