Somalia's coastal and offshore waters are dangerous for the innocent passage of fishing vessels, traditional boats, yachts and commercial vessel traffic.

In particular, the expert group recommended that a distinction be made between commercial vessels where illicit drugs were part of the cargo, and other vessels, such as pleasure craft or fishing vessels, which had often been refitted for drug trafficking purposes.

We can also tag and track fishing vessels.

65. The United Arab Emirates indicated that it had prohibited the operation of commercial fishing vessels in its territorial waters. It had also prohibited in its waters foreign fishing activities, including those operated as joint ventures with local fishing interests.

Commercial fishing with dynamite is illegal.

Foreign fishing vessels have open access to Somali coastal waters.

There were other friendly vessels fishing in the same area.

The regulation of the fisheries sector also covers national fishing vessels.

Also noted was the continued growth in maritime drug trafficking, particularly in the Caribbean region and in European seaports, involving the use of pleasure craft, fishing boats and commercial container vessels.

On 16 January, the Alpha Serengeti opened fire on two unidentified fishing vessels that apparently had intruded into its fishing zone.

Through this policy, no drift net vessels or vessels directly supporting drift net vessels had been granted access to Australian ports and foreign fishing vessels equipped with large drift nets had been apprehended and prosecuted for fishing in Australian waters and had had their drift nets forfeited and subsequently destroyed.

The commercial fishing industry is driven principally by foreign interests.

Unfortunately, some States allow vessels to fly their flag without ensuring that the fishing practices of those vessels are legal and sound.

This would require, inter alia, that parties to the Agreement maintained a register of vessels fishing on the high seas and that all vessels engaged in such fishing operations were authorized to do so.

45. Calls upon States to take all necessary measures to ensure that vessels flying their flag do not engage in trans shipment of fish caught by fishing vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

54. Calls upon States to take all necessary measures to ensure that vessels flying their flag do not engage in trans shipment of fish caught by fishing vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

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

236. In addition, Greenpeace has found that of the 3.5 million fishing vessels estimated by FAO to be fishing worldwide, only 35,000, or 1 per cent of that number, were classified as large scale, industrialized vessels.

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.

Others suggested the development of a comprehensive global record of fishing vessels authorized to fish.

Two thirds of these emissions are almost equally divided between traditional transport and fishing vessels.

22. In its reply of 5 August 1998 to the Secretary General, Mexico stated that it had complied strictly with the provisions of resolution 46 215 establishing a total moratorium on large scale pelagic drift net fishing and that from 1990 to date no commercial fishing permit had been issued to fishing vessels with nets longer than 2,000 metres.

82. Cape Verde stated that its fishing vessels had not been engaged in any fishing activities in zones subject to the jurisdiction of other States.

The absence of controls on the overall fishing effort and the 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.

However, licence revenue derived from foreign fishing vessels has decreased drastically over the past few years.

74. The Bahamas has stated that no fishing vessels registered in the Bahamas had engaged in unauthorized fishing in areas under the jurisdiction of other States.

The main sea based sources of marine litter are merchant shipping, ferries and cruise liners, fishing vessels (mainly as a source of abandoned or lost fishing gear), military fleets, research vessels, pleasure craft, offshore oil and gas platforms and aquaculture installations.

(j) Welcome the adoption of the revised Code of Safety for Fishermen and Fishing Vessels and encourage its effective application, and urge States to become parties to the 1993 Protocol to the Torremolinos International Convention for the Safety of Fishing Vessels.

Local Somali administrations, or faction leaders conclude licensing arrangements with foreign countries, companies or individual fishing vessels.

They pointed out that labour conditions on board fishing vessels were in some cases analogous to slavery.

IMO would need to work with FAO to address the issue of marine debris from fishing vessels.

All these factors would compel commercial fisherfolk to reduce or otherwise modify their fishing.

66. There are indications that drug traffickers are relying increasingly relying on commercial and non commercial maritime vessels to transport illicit drug consignments.

85. Japan indicated that it had prohibited its fishing vessels from entering areas under the national jurisdiction of other States for the purpose of fishing unless such vessels had permission to do so from the competent authorities of the coastal States concerned.

233. According to a study Greenpeace had commissioned in 1997 entitled Assessment of the World s Fishing Fleet 1991 1997 , a total of 1,654 fishing vessels had been added to the world s fleet from 1991 to 1996, and with orders for 244 new vessels of over 100 gross tonnes in 1997, it was convinced that the industry was returning to the trend of constructing fishing vessels with large tonnage.

No attention was paid to the cultural and religious significance of fishing for the Mississauga and traditional non commercial fishing rights were almost extinguished.

However, almost all contents of the Agreement such as the system for permission or approval of fishing vessel operations on the high seas, the marking of such vessels, the obligation to keep records of fishing vessels and approval by the Minister of International Trade and Industry with regard to export of fishing vessels had been implemented by existing national laws, such as the Fisheries Law, the Fishing Boat Law, the Export Trade Control Order and other regulations under the Fisheries Law.

In October 1997, the first long line fishing boat owned and operated by American Samoa was put into operation, allowing it to compete with foreign long line fishing vessels.

It is estimated that 153,849 people are employed in the state in jobs related to recreational fishing while only 20,820 are employed in commercial fishing.

Other issues considered to be adversely affecting fisheries in the Mediterranean are those related to the degradation of the marine environment fishing by unidentified vessels fishing of some stocks at intensities significantly above those consistent with long term optimal yield fishing efforts exceeding levels providing maximum economic yield and competition between industrial fleets and artisanal coastal vessels.

The National Marine Fisheries Service and the Coast Guard have continued to utilize Department of Defense surveillance information for locating and identifying large scale high seas drift net fishing vessels in 1997 and 1998 and would continue to explore other possible uses of the Department s surveillance capabilities for the monitoring of drift net fishing vessels and fishing activity.

In 2002 Ukraine adopted a law on its national programme On the building of fishing vessels , for 2002 2010.

(c) Encourage work by competent international organizations to develop guidelines on flag State performance in relation to fishing vessels

In this connection, cooperative efforts resulted in the detection of six drift net vessels engaged in illegal fishing operations.

21. In 1994, a total of 918 vessels entered American Samoa, including fishing boats, freighters, yachts and cruise ships.