Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources of the high seas

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.

1. Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources

1. Apply international provisions to fish populations on the high seas

1. Training observers to be placed on fishing vessels
2. Strengthening international cooperation on enclosed and semi-enclosed seas
3. Strengthening developing country capability in conservation and sustainable use of high seas marine living resources
4. Providing training about high seas resource assessment
5. Negotiating international agreements for conservation of fish stocks
6. Minimizing incidental catch by fishing vessels on the high seas
7. Mapping ocean resources
8. Increasing international cooperation on the conservation of cetaceans
9. Improving national capacity to monitor marine living resources
10. Improving data collection on marine living resources of the high seas
11. Improving coordination among international fishery agencies
12. Implementing international law of the sea on straddling and highly migratory fish stocks
13. Expanding membership of high seas fisheries agencies
14. Expanding cooperative research on life cycles of high seas species
15. Exchanging fisheries information
16. Establishing international fisheries agencies in neglected marine areas
17. Developing profiles of fish stocks
18. Developing databases on marine living resources
19. Deterring reflagging of vessels to avoid fishing regulations
20. Defining appropriate management framework for fish stocks in international waters
21. Correlating marine environmental data with high seas marine living resource data
22. Coordinating research programmes on management of high seas resources
23. Assessing high seas resources potential

1. Unused
2. Unsustainable
3. Underuse
4. High-spiritedness
5. High-mindedness
6. Abuse

1. THE INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND LIVING MARINE RESOURCE USE
2. High Seas Alliance
3. Towards a Strategy for High Seas Marine Protected Areas
4. Do we need Marine Protected Areas on the High Seas?
5. Oceans & Seas
6. Sustainable Use of Marine Living Resources
7. The Ocean Dimension of the 2030 Agenda: Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Ocean, Seas, and Marine Resources for Sustainable Development
8. Agenda 21