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relevant World Trade Organization agreements, and notes ongoing discussions in the
World Trade Organization on such schemes;
8.
Urges States and relevant international and national organizations to
provide for participation of small-scale fishery stakeholders in related policy
development and fisheries management strategies in order to achieve long-term
sustainability for such fisheries, consistent with the duty to ensure the proper
conservation and management of fisheries resources;
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Implementation of the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation
of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law
of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and
Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory
Fish Stocks
9.
Calls upon all States, and entities referred to in the Convention and in
article 1, paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement, that have not done so to ratify or
accede to the Agreement and in the interim to consider applying it provisionally;
10. Calls upon States parties to the Agreement to harmonize, as a matter of
priority, their national legislation with the provisions of the Agreement, and to
ensure that the provisions of the Agreement are effectively implemented into
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements of which they are a
member;
11. Emphasizes the importance of those provisions of the Agreement relating
to bilateral, regional and subregional cooperation in enforcement, and urges
continued efforts in this regard;
12. Encourages States, as appropriate, to recognize that the general
principles of the Agreement should also apply to discrete fish stocks in the high
seas;
13. Calls upon all States to ensure that their vessels comply with the
conservation and management measures that have been adopted by subregional and
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in accordance with
relevant provisions of the Convention and of the Agreement;
14. Urges States parties to the Agreement, in accordance with article 21,
paragraph 4, thereof to inform, either directly or through the relevant regional or
subregional fisheries management organization or arrangement, all States whose
vessels fish on the high seas in the same region or subregion of the form of
identification issued by those States parties to officials duly authorized to carry out
boarding and inspection functions in accordance with articles 21 and 22 of the
Agreement;
15. Also urges States parties to the Agreement, in accordance with article 21,
paragraph 4, to designate an appropriate authority to receive notifications pursuant
to article 21 and to give due publicity to such designation through the relevant
subregional or regional fisheries management organization or arrangement;
16. Invites States and international financial institutions and organizations of
the United Nations system to provide assistance according to Part VII of the
Agreement, including, if appropriate, the development of special financial
mechanisms or instruments to assist developing States, in particular the least
developed among them and small island developing States, to enable them to
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