Recommendations of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition to the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction.
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Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas
English
1st May 2011
Source: UNEP
Long overlooked, deep-water sponge grounds are now emerging as a key component of deep-sea ecosystems, creating complex habitats hosting manyother species. They are an important refuge in the deep ocean and they are also reservoirs of great species diversity, including commercially important fish. Playing a similar role to that of cold-water coral reefs with which they often co-occur, sponge grounds are even more ecologically and geographically diverse, consisting of many individual species and occurring in many places around the world.
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Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas
English
1st August 2010
Alex Rogers & Matthew Gianni
For the past eight years, the issue of protecting biodiversity in the deep sea in areas beyond national jurisdiction – the high seas – has been extensively debated by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and in other international fora. The UNGA adopted a series of resolutions, beginning with Resolution 59/25 in 2004, which called on high seas fishing nations and regional fisheries management organisations to take urgent action to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems from destructive fishing practices, including bottom trawl fishing, in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
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Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas
English
1st June 2010
Review of the implementation of the provisions of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution 61/105 related to the management of high seas bottom fisheries: Submission to the UN Division for Oceans Affairs and the Law of the Sea.
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Deep-Sea Fishing
UNGA
English
1st June 2009
Progress report on the Implementation of UN General Assembly resolution 61/105 for the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems from the impact of bottomfisheries on the high seas (2009).
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Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas, Policy
English
1st January 2009
With the sustainable fisheries negotiations resuming next week, below is a compilation of the latest news from recent RFMO meetings and their progress towards implementation of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 61/105 paragraphs 83-86 on the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems from high seas bottom fishing.
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Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas
English
1st November 2008
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Continue reading DSCC Position Statement
Deep-Sea Fishing, Deep-Sea Mining, High Seas
English
1st August 2007
Source: WWF
Governance of the world’s oceans is characterized by a patchwork of organizations tasked with the conservation and management of living marine resources. Formal co-operation between States through Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) dates back to at least the 1920s and there are now 16 RFMOs with a mandate to establish binding management measures for fisheries resources. While some gaps remain, particularly with respect to discrete, high seas fish stocks, the vast majority of the marine fisheries resources of the world’s oceans are under the control of at least one, if not more than one, RFMO.
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Deep-Sea Fishing, High Seas
English
1st December 2006
Source: UNEP
We live in an age of ocean discovery. Advances in science and technology are unveiling secrets and shattering myths about the oceans that are changing the way we view life on Earth. There is an urgent need to apply these new insights to manage human activities to protect, restore and maintain ocean life in all its variety so that life on Earth can continue to prosper
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High Seas Treaty, International Ocean Governance
English
1st December 2006
