United Nations
General Assembly
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 34 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.11 and Add.1)]
55/8.
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, 50/25 of 5 December 1995, 51/36 of 9 December 1996, 52/29 of
26 November 1997 and 53/33 of 24 November 1998, as well as other resolutions on
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,
Welcoming the Rome Declaration on the Implementation of the Code of
Conduct for Responsible Fisheries adopted by the Ministerial Meeting on Fisheries
of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in March 1999,
Noting that the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries sets out principles
and global standards of behaviour for responsible practices to conserve, manage and
develop fisheries, including guidelines for fishing on the high seas and in areas
under the national jurisdiction of other States, and on fishing gear selectivity and
practices, with the aim of reducing by-catch and discards,
Recognizing that coordination and cooperation at the global, regional,
subregional as well as national levels in the areas, inter alia, of data collection,
information-sharing, capacity-building and training are crucial for the conservation,
management and sustainable development of marine living resources,
Noting the conclusion of negotiations to establish new regional organizations
and arrangements in several heretofore unmanaged fisheries, in particular the
Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean and the Convention on the Conservation
and Management of Fishery Resources in the South-east Atlantic Ocean, and
highlighting that these agreements were concluded pursuant to the Agreement for
the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law
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A/RES/55/8
Distr.: General
2 March 2001