Australia would like to underline its strong desire for enhanced measures to tackle illegal and unregulated fishing.

Damaging impacts are caused by a range of destructive fishing techniques and by the ever present scourge of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

IUU fishing is a fundamental threat to sustainable fisheries and ocean ecosystems.

83. Takes note of recent efforts at the regional level to promote responsible fishing practices, including combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

With regard to factors limiting the contribution of fisheries to sustainable development, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and overfishing remain a primary challenge.

We should not shy away from measures that would help to protect marine natural resources from pollution or illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing.

A group of non governmental organizations called attention to the link between the practice of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and poor social and safety conditions for crews on board fishing vessels.

Illicit enrichment

57 142. Large scale pelagic drift net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the high seas illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, fisheries by catch and discards, and other developments

Egypt has long suffered from issues of uncontrolled hunting.

Such an uncontrolled, unproductive process is known as ghost fishing .

The need to prevent and suppress transhipment of fish caught by fishing vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing was also highlighted.

Illegal detention

Among them, two governance issues straddle the two draft resolutions, to which the European Union attaches particular importance combating illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, and addressing the conservation of vulnerable marine ecosystems.

In that regard, the European Union places particular emphasis on the need of major markets for fish and fish products to take measures to eliminate the commerce on which IUU fishing fleets rely.

Most importantly, we need to address the crucial issue of the genuine link between States and their flagged vessels an issue that is much broader than IUU fishing alone.

The claim unit is for loss in fish catch caused by the delay as well as project expenses incurred during the period of the delay.

Illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing for toothfish in the Southern Ocean, for example, still exceeds reported catches despite major efforts to control such activities.

Pirate fishing often called illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing deprives an estimated half billion law abiding fishermen and their communities of up to 23 billion worth of seafood annually.

The internationally wrongful act of a State

This is not an illegitimate motivation.

H. Illegal logging

Illegal international traffic

Another way of eliminating IUU fishing is to eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

Additionally, in September 2004 an agreement was signed between New Caledonia and Vanuatu regarding research on the protection of the maritime world, while another agreement on the fight against illegal fishing is almost complete. A cooperation programme between the police forces of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, which includes training for the Vanuatu police in New Caledonia, was also initiated in 2005.8

Absence of control in the overall fishing effort and fishing practices of local fishers and foreign fishing vessels, prompted by the inadequacy of monitoring, control and surveillance, is the root cause of such unsustainable fishing practices.

Elements of an internationally wrongful act of a State

Legal consequences of an internationally wrongful act

Unearmarked contributions finance the core project of the trust fund.

Eradication of the illicit supply

the internationally wrongful act of an international organization

Addressing illegal international traffic

Action to combat trafficking

The most pressing threats to the GMR come from overfishing and illegal fishing.

Brazil attributes the problem of excess fishing capacity not only to the illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries, but also to the oversized fishery fleets of some developed States.

Fourthly, it has been clearly established that the illicit exploitation of natural resources constitutes one of the privileged sources of financing fuelling the illicit trade in small arms.

Also suggested by some delegations was the establishment of a list of fishing vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing by regional fisheries management organizations and enhanced port State control.

To address the problems of low access fees, absence of catch limits, IUU fishing, and the lack of reporting, observers and regulation, the new Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention took effect in June 2004.

We also support the calls in this year's draft resolution on fisheries for renewed efforts to achieve sustainable aquaculture, to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and to address fishing overcapacity and harmful subsidies.

Illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons

Open ended Working Group of the Parties to

Detection of malicious activities such as illicit trafficking

These include the flow of refugees seeking safety in neighbouring countries, human trafficking, the illicit flow of small arms and the illegal exploitation of natural resources.

This initiative would provide a platform for inter agency cooperation and coordination of activities for the control and management of marine litter and derelict fishing gear as part of the project.

A representative of a non governmental organization underlined the near extinction of the leatherback turtle as a result of long line fishing in the Pacific and called for a moratorium on that practice.