Fishing gear can inflict lethal cuts and wounds on fish and marine wildlife.

Marine debris is a global transboundary pollution problem that constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies.

We strongly believe that all States should apply effective measures for the conservation, management and exploitation of fish stocks in order to protect living marine resources and preserve the marine environment.

Concerned that marine pollution from all sources, including vessels and, in particular, land based sources, constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies,

Concerned that marine pollution from all sources, including vessels and in particular land based sources, constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies,

Various types of MPAs that range from sustainable use to no take have been proven to effectively preserve endangered marine species and rapidly increase fish biomass by allowing fish to reproduce undisturbed.

Concerned that marine pollution from all sources, including vessels and, in particular, land based sources, constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine and coastal habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies,

Harvesting of marine fish resources in India takes place at three levels, namely, subsistence fishing, small scale fishing and industrial fishing.

We have more sharks, more biomass of snappers, more biomass of herbivores, too, like these parrot fish that are like marine goats.

Methyl mercury bio accumulates up the marine food chain to create high concentrations in predatory species of fish such as shark, swordfish and tuna, as well as marine mammals such as whales, dolphins and porpoises.

I will focus on three main topics in my statement today the evaluation of the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement, the sustainable management of living marine resources and protection of the marine environment, and maritime security.

The agreements often result in the depletion of fish stocks, limited fishing access to hereditary fishing areas, and damage to the marine ecosystem.

They include reporting by fishing vessels of lost or discarded fishing gear periodic surveys of marine debris on beaches and in seal and penguin colonies near coastal stations reporting accidental entanglement(s) in, or ingestion of, marine debris by birds, marine mammals, fish and other animals and recording observations of marine mammals and seabirds soiled with hydrocarbons such as fuel oil.

K. Hinman, Ocean Roulette Conserving Swordfish, Sharks and Other Threatened Pelagic Fish in Longline Infested Water, Virginia National Coalition for Marine Conservation, February 1998, p. 8.

103. Urges all States to implement the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land based ActivitiesA 51 116, annex II. and to accelerate activity to safeguard the marine ecosystem, including fish stocks, against pollution and physical degradation

Recalling the importance of marine science in promoting the sustainable management of the oceans and seas, including in the assessment, conservation, management and sustainable use of fish stocks,

(d) Short , medium and long term ecosystem management mechanisms to address and prevent the decline and extinction of associated species, including fish, billfish, sea turtles, seabirds and marine mammals

Targeting highly migratory predatory fish species including tuna and swordfish, industrial longlines also catch or kill as many as 4.4 million sea turtles, billfish, sharks, marine mammals and seabirds.

Marine environment, marine resources, marine biodiversity and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems

The international legal framework within which commercial vessels flying Ukraine's flag can fish on the high seas consists of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Fish Stocks Agreement and the 1980 Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

Some delegations referred to the adoption by FAO of international guidelines for the ecolabelling of fish and fishery products from marine capture fisheries, and the recommendation by the FAO Committee on Fisheries to prepare international guidelines on the ecolabelling of fish and fishery products from inland fisheries.

Longlining threatens the survival of artisanal and subsistence fishing communities, large predatory fish stocks, sea turtles, marine mammals and sea birds to provide seafood that is too dangerous to eat.

But our challenge is to implement such measures and to encourage States to comply with them in order to stop the depletion of fish stocks and the destruction of marine biodiversity.

As a responsible fishing State and a State party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Japan is earnest about addressing conservation and management problems, as well as sustainable use issues related to living marine resources, including straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks.

Marine environment, marine resources and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems

Marine environment and marine resources

States will tackle important cross cutting oceans issues, such as marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, the review of the effectiveness of the 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement and the implementation of actions called for in last year's Assembly resolution 59 25 with respect to vulnerable marine ecosystems.

Big fish eat little fish.

Boris Worm, Assistant Professor in Marine Conservation Biology, Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, made a presentation on the causes and consequences of and solutions to the global decline in large pelagic fish.

And I wanted to close this program with a story of hope, a story I did on marine reserves as sort of a solution to the problem of overfishing, the global fish crisis story.

Marine environment, marine resources and sustainable development

The big fish eats the little fish.

XI. Marine environment, marine resources and sustainable development

I believe this fish is a freshwater fish.

Notes that 2005 marks the 10 year anniversary of the adoption of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land based Activities, and urges all States to implement the Global Programme of Action and to accelerate activity to safeguard the marine ecosystem, including fish stocks, against pollution and physical degradation

It turns out they've got to fish where the fish are.

But unfortunately, CCAMLR, the regional commission in charge of conserving and managing fish stocks and other living marine resources, is unfortunately starting to give in to fishing interests and has authorized the expansion of toothfish fisheries in the region.

Expressing concern, while recognizing considerable efforts to reduce by catch in longline fishing through various regional fisheries management organizations, at the reports of continued loss of seabirds, particularly albatrosses, as a result of incidental mortality from longline fishing operations, and the loss of other marine species, including sharks, fin fish species and marine turtles, as a result of incidental mortality,

64. Notes that 2005 will mark the ten year anniversary of the adoption of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land based Activities,A 51 116, annex II. and urges all States to implement the Global Programme of Action and to accelerate activity to safeguard the marine ecosystem, including fish stocks, against pollution and physical degradation

Expressing concern over reports of continued losses of seabirds, particularly albatrosses and petrels, as well as other marine species, including sharks, fin fish species and marine turtles, as a result of incidental mortality in fishing operations, particularly longline fishing, and other activities, while recognizing considerable efforts to reduce by catch in longline fishing through various regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements,

76. Notes that 2005 marks the ten year anniversary of the adoption of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land based Activities,A 51 116, annex II. and urges all States to implement the Global Programme of Action and to accelerate activity to safeguard the marine ecosystem, including fish stocks, against pollution and physical degradation

93. Notes that the Second Intergovernmental Review Meeting of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land based Activities was held from 16 to 20 October 2006 in Beijing, and urges all States to implement the Global Programme of Action and to accelerate activity to safeguard the marine ecosystem, including fish stocks, against pollution and physical degradation

Expressing concern over reports of continued losses of seabirds, particularly albatrosses and petrels, as well as other marine species, including sharks, fin fish species and marine turtles, as a result of incidental mortality in fishing operations, particularly longline fishing, and other activities, while recognizing considerable efforts to reduce by catch in longline fishing through various regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements,

V Marine safety and protection of the marine environment from accidental pollution

Marine science