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.

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.

Overfishing and depletion of fish stocks are threatening the sustainability of the fisheries sector.

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.

Considering stocks for which information is available, overfishing appears widespread and the majority of stocks are fully exploited.

Fishing pressure on stocks is generally high.

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,

Top predators, medium level predators, as well as sub surface pelagic and deep sea resources, show similar trends.

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.

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.

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.

High seas MPAs would aid the recovery of depleted and overfished fish stocks thereby creating employment and ensuring food security for coastal communities.

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,

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

While close to 25 per cent of stocks are moderately or under exploited, 52 per cent of the stocks are fully exploited and 25 per cent of them are over exploited, depleted or recovering.

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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

Aquaculture on a larger scale was a good alternative for meeting the demand for, and removing pressure from, wild 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

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.

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

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,

Instrumental in South Africa's acceptance of the UN Agreement relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory fish Stocks and participant in consultations between States Parties.

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.

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,

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

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. New York, 4 August 1995

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

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.