Fisheries and the right to food 2012, para. 46
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- The widespread failure to implement responsible fisheries management notwithstanding, the situation can be rectified. For example, there has been notable progress in creating marine protected areas, with some of the largest protected areas being declared recently, including in northern Australia and in the Indian Ocean surrounding the Chagos Islands. During the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Maldives announced that its entire territorial waters would become a marine reserve by 2017 and industrial fishing and extractive industries therein would be banned. Notwithstanding the benefits expected to accrue from marine protected areas and their relatively minor management costs (around $2 billion in total, compared to the $16 billion spent annually on subsidies in the fishing sector), marine protected areas cannot replace regulation of fishing efforts and harvesting capacity. In addition, they can negatively affect the livelihoods of small-scale fishers and local food security.
- Condicón jurídica
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Medio de adopción
- N.A.
- Temas
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personas afectadas
- N.A.
- Año
- 2012
- Tipo de párrafo
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/268, para. 46.
- Paragraph number
- 46
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