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These objectives have all been agreed to by governments at the 

 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, and 

 the negotiation of conservation and management measures for fish- 

 eries at both regional and global levels must both reaffirm and 

 strengthen intergovernmental commitment toward these ends. 



Effective fisheries conservation and management measures must 

 be established to assure that the decisions regarding fisheries and 

 their impacts on the marine environment are equitable and ac- 

 countable to all interested parties. 



Practical mechanisms for monitoring, control and surveillance 

 must be developed or strengthened for the implementation of the 

 fisheries provisions of the Law of the Sea and the conservation and 

 management of fisheries on both a regional and global basis, with 

 particular emphasis on the high seas. 



Greenpeace's basic concerns and views regarding reforms that 

 are needed with respect to the international conservation and man- 

 agement of fisheries are addressed in an "NGO Statement: A Call 

 for Global Fisheries Reform." That statement was presented at the 

 opening session of the July, 1993, U.N. Fisheries Conference. 

 Greenpeace and other NGOs from around the world have endorsed 

 the NGO statement. 



Practical mechanisms must be developed or strengthened for the 

 implementation of the fisheries provisions of UNCLOS and the con- 

 servation and management of fisheries on both a regional and 

 global basis, with particular emphasis on the high seas. 



Along with a variety of mechanisms, a global fund for fisheries 

 conservation should be established on the basis of fees for fishing 

 in international waters. 



Greenpeace takes the position that for straddling and highly mi- 

 gratory fish stocks a consistent conservation and management 

 regime is needed throughout the ranges of the stocks as a safe- 

 guard against overexploitation and other adverse environmental ef- 

 fects. 



For purposes of the U.N. conference as well as in establishing a 

 conservation and management regime on a regional basis, any 

 elaboration of coastal state and distant water states rights regard- 

 ing fishing on straddling and highly migratory fish stocks and fish- 

 ing on the high seas must, more importantly than dealing with 

 "rights", enhance those same states' responsibility for the conser- 

 vation of the stocks, including an explicit obligation for the protec- 

 tion of fisheries habitat both on the high seas and within the EEZ. 



In conclusion, Greenpeace International urges your subcommit- 

 tee to consider the above positions and recommendations in the 

 current and future recommendations on the subject of internation- 

 al fisheries management in the north Pacific and west Atlantic and 

 other areas. 



We strongly support the package of implementing legislation to 

 allow the United States become a full participant in the Northwest 

 Atlantic Fisheries Organization, the NAFO. U.S. vessels have 

 fished in the international waters of the NAFO convention area in 

 the past, including as recently as August, 1993, for species regulat- 

 ed by that body. 



