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73. Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to report to the General Assembly
at its sixty-first session on the actions taken by States and regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements to give effect to paragraphs 66 to 69 of
resolution 59/25, in order to facilitate the review referred to in paragraph 71 of the
resolution of progress on action taken, with a view to further recommendations,
where necessary, in areas where arrangements are inadequate, and further requests
that an advance unedited version of the report be made available in accordance with
past practice via the website of the Division as of 15 July 2006;
74. Requests States and regional fisheries management organizations and
arrangements to submit detailed information to the Secretary-General in a timely
manner on actions taken pursuant to paragraphs 66 to 69 of resolution 59/25 to
facilitate a comprehensive review of such actions;
75. Encourages progress to establish criteria on the objectives and
management of marine protected areas for fisheries purposes, and in this regard
welcomes the proposed work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations to develop technical guidelines in accordance with the Convention
on the design, implementation and testing of marine protected areas for such
purposes, and urges coordination and cooperation among all relevant international
organizations and bodies;
76. Notes that 2005 marks the ten-year anniversary of the adoption of the
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from
Land-based Activities, 15 and urges all States to implement the Global Programme of
Action and to accelerate activity to safeguard the marine ecosystem, including fish
stocks, against pollution and physical degradation;
77. Calls upon States, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, the International Maritime Organization, the United Nations Environment
Programme, in particular its Regional Seas programme, regional and subregional
fisheries management organizations and arrangements and other appropriate
intergovernmental organizations that have not yet done so to take action to address
the issue of lost or abandoned fishing gear and related marine debris, including
through the collection of data on gear loss, economic costs to fisheries and other
sectors, and the impact on marine ecosystems;
78. Encourages close cooperation and coordination, as appropriate, between
States, relevant intergovernmental organizations, United Nations programmes and
other bodies, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
the International Maritime Organization, the United Nations Environment
Programme, the Global Programme of Action, and Regional Seas arrangements,
regional and subregional fisheries management organizations and arrangements and
relevant stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations, to address the
issue of lost and discarded fishing gear and related marine debris, through initiatives
such as analysis of the implementation and effectiveness of the existing measures
relevant to the control and management of derelict fishing gear and related marine
debris, the development and implementation of targeted studies to determine the
socio-economic, technical and other factors that influence the accidental loss and
deliberate disposal of fishing gear at sea, the assessment and implementation of
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