The 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement is an essential contribution to the law of the sea as regards the management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks.

I will focus on three main topics in my statement today the evaluation of the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement, the sustainable management of living marine resources and protection of the marine environment, and maritime security.

The Review Conference of the 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement will be held next year to evaluate the effectiveness of the Agreement in the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks.

We strongly believe that all States should apply effective measures for the conservation, management and exploitation of fish stocks in order to protect living marine resources and preserve the marine environment.

Nigeria considers the forthcoming May 2006 review conference of the Fish Stocks Agreement to be of great importance for our efforts to manage fishery stocks.

Through the Agreement, States are obliged to cooperate in the management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks.

With respect to the problem of stock management and fishing, we would like to emphasize the need to introduce stricter measures to limit the level of exploitation of most stocks.

Recalling the importance of marine science in promoting the sustainable management of the oceans and seas, including in the assessment, conservation, management and sustainable use of fish stocks,

The straddling fish stocks Agreement also makes that mechanism applicable to disputes concerning subregional, regional or global fisheries agreements relating to straddling or highly migratory fish stocks.

The Agreement provides a framework for the conservation and management of fish stocks in the high seas.

Noting the obligation of all States, pursuant to the provisions of the Convention, to cooperate in the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks,

Noting the obligation of all States, pursuant to the provisions of the Convention, to cooperate in the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks,

MPAs offer the added advantage over subsidized industrial fishing by creating regions where the recovery of fish stock and endangered species could take place for less than the cost of subsidizing the global industrial fisheries.

Noting the importance of the wide application of the precautionary approach to the conservation, management and exploitation of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks, in accordance with the Agreement,

The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement is of paramount importance, as it strengthens considerably the framework for the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks by regional fisheries management organizations.

Because MPAs are a proven cost effective way to increase fish stocks, they would be a crucial complement to a moratorium on industrial longline fishing in the Pacific.

Marine debris is a global transboundary pollution problem that constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies.

Somalia has a 3,600 km coastline and some of the last wild fish stocks in the world.

At present there is no universal approach to determining biological criteria for an admissible level of stock exploitation.

Recognizing the importance of the Agreement for the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks and the need for the regular consideration by the General Assembly of developments relating thereto,

56 13. 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

57 143. 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

The stocks of the Western and Central Pacific are a significant natural resource for Pacific coastal States.

New Zealand is a strong supporter of the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement and urges wide participation in next year's review conference to assess the effectiveness of the Agreement in securing the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks.

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

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

103. Urges all States to implement the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land based ActivitiesA 51 116, annex II. and to accelerate activity to safeguard the marine ecosystem, including fish stocks, against pollution and physical degradation

Noting also the importance of implementing the principles elaborated in article 5 of the Agreement, including ecosystem considerations, in the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks,

My country had attached great importance to fisheries issues even before Ukraine became a party to the Fish Stocks Agreement.

28. Also requests the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to revise its global fisheries statistics database to provide information on straddling fish stocks, highly migratory fish stocks and discrete high seas fish stocks on the basis of where the catch is taken

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

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

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

Noting also the importance of implementing the principles elaborated in article 5 of the Agreement, including ecosystem considerations, in the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks,

The reports draw our attention to important issues facing the United Nations, including the increasing adverse impact on marine ecosystems and the depletion of fish stocks resulting from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the seas beyond areas of national jurisdiction.

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

Encourages States, as appropriate, to recognize that the general principles of the Agreement should also apply to discrete fish stocks in the high seas

The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement, in particular, needs many more States parties in order to become the universal instrument that it is intended to be.

(f) Encourage States, as appropriate, to recognize that the general principles of the Agreement should also apply to discrete fish stocks in the high seas

Many underlined the need to reduce excess fishing capacity and to maintain capacity at levels commensurate with the sustainability of target fish stocks.

Next year, we will also see the holding of a review conference on the 1995 Agreement on the management and conservation of fish stocks, which complements the Montego Bay Convention.

The international legal framework within which commercial vessels flying Ukraine's flag can fish on the high seas consists of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Fish Stocks Agreement and the 1980 Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

The review conference is intended for the international community, represented by the United Nations, to review the Agreement in order to evaluate its efficacy in ensuring the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks and put forward relevant recommendations where necessary.

To that end, it obliges States to practise caution when managing fish stocks and their ecosystems, as well as to minimize activities that are harmful to the oceans.

One delegation indicated its willingness to share the data and information it had compiled at the national level about fish stocks, pollution, salinity and temperature.