Strengthening local understanding and sustainable use of marine living resources

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.

Agenda 21 recommends providing support to local fishing communities, in particular those that rely on fishing for subsistence, indigenous people and women, including appropriate technical and financial assistance to organize, maintain, exchange and improve traditional knowledge of marine living resources and fishing techniques, and upgrade knowledge on marine ecosystems.

1. Strengthening local management
2. Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources

1. Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources under national jurisdiction
2. Conserving marine living resources in accordance with international law

1. Increasing awareness for need to stabilize resource consumption
2. Improving public understanding of scientific reports on local sustainable development issues
3. Assisting coastal and island states to expand marine research capabilities

1. Unused
2. Unsustainable
3. Underuse
4. Understanding
5. Nonlocal
6. Misunderstanding
7. Abuse