Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources under national jurisdiction

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

Developing sustainable coastal fishing policy

Surveying marine living resources

Prohibiting destructive fishing practices

Integrating small scale artisanal fisheries development in marine planning

Including interests of coastal peoples in fisheries development strategies

Improving national quality control for seafood

Facilitates

Increasing productivity of marine living resources

Expanding recreational and tourist activities based on marine living resources

Facilitated by

Strengthening international cooperation on enclosed and semi-enclosed seas

Establishing sustainable aquaculture development strategies

Developing criteria for fishing practices to minimize waste and by-catch

Assisting developing countries' ocean fisheries

Conserving global marine biological diversity

Transferring fishing technology to local communities

Transferring environmentally sound fishery technology

Strengthening national capacities for conservation of marine living resources

Strengthening local understanding and sustainable use of marine living resources

Strengthening capacity of developing countries for sustainable use of marine living resources

Respecting rights of small-scale farming workers

Increasing international cooperation on the conservation of cetaceans

Increasing efficient use of marine living resources for food

Increasing contribution of marine living resources to food security in developing countries

Incorporating traditional knowledge of marine living resources in management plans

Including marine living resources in curricula at all education levels

Including interests of indigenous people in international agreements

Improving national capacity to monitor marine living resources

Improving data collection on conservation of marine living resources

Improving coordination among international fishery agencies

Expanding multidisciplinary research on marine living resources

Exchanging fisheries information

Developing environmentally sound technology for sustainable use of marine living resources

Conducting research on areas of special importance for marine living resources

Managing water resources for sustainable rural development

Value

Web link

Agenda 21

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #14: Life Below Water

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(E) Emanations of other strategies

Subject

Oceanography » Marine

Resources » Resources

Law » Judiciary

Development » Sustainable development » Sustainable development

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Dec 8, 2022