Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources of the high seas

Implementation

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Broader

Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources

Narrower

Apply international provisions to fish populations on the high seas

Facilitated by

Strengthening international cooperation on enclosed and semi-enclosed seas

Training observers to be placed on fishing vessels

Strengthening developing country capability in conservation and sustainable use of high seas marine living resources

Providing training about high seas resource assessment

Negotiating international agreements for conservation of fish stocks

Minimizing incidental catch by fishing vessels on the high seas

Mapping ocean resources

Increasing international cooperation on the conservation of cetaceans

Improving national capacity to monitor marine living resources

Improving data collection on marine living resources of the high seas

Improving coordination among international fishery agencies

Implementing international law of the sea on straddling and highly migratory fish stocks

Expanding membership of high seas fisheries agencies

Expanding cooperative research on life cycles of high seas species

Exchanging fisheries information

Establishing international fisheries agencies in neglected marine areas

Developing profiles of fish stocks

Developing databases on marine living resources

Deterring reflagging of vessels to avoid fishing regulations

Defining appropriate management framework for fish stocks in international waters

Correlating marine environmental data with high seas marine living resource data

Coordinating research programmes on management of high seas resources

Assessing high seas resources potential

Value

Web link

THE INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND LIVING MARINE RESOURCE USE

High Seas Alliance

Towards a Strategy for High Seas Marine Protected Areas

Do we need Marine Protected Areas on the High Seas?

Oceans & Seas

Sustainable Use of Marine Living Resources

The Ocean Dimension of the 2030 Agenda: Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Ocean, Seas, and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development

Agenda 21

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #14: Life Below Water

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(E) Emanations of other strategies

Subject

Oceanography » Seas
Oceanography » Marine
Resources » Resources
Development » Sustainable development » Sustainable development

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Jan 18, 2023