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case of high seas fleet mobility and illustrates the need to take 

 a global approach to international fisheries management. 



Greenpeace recognizes the need to develop or enhance regional 

 and global "infrastructure" for the implementation of fisheries 

 conservation measures. In particular, effective mechanisms are 

 needed at the global level for monitoring, control and 

 surveillance of high seas fisheries to support or enhance 

 regional capacity for fisheries management; to be applied where 

 regional organizations or management is non-existent; and to be 

 applied in cases where a global approach is needed — for 

 example, monitoring all high seas areas for evidence of continued 

 large-scale driftnet fishing, evidence of reflagging, or the 

 illegal incursion into EEZs by vessels fishing in adjacent high 

 seas areas. This "infrastructure" should consist of , at a 

 minimum: 



i) the establishment of an internationally organized corps 

 of OBSERVERS to be selectively placed aboard high seas fishing 

 fleets to monitor catch, bycatch, gear types etc. This should be 

 part of more comprehensive cooperative mechanisms established to 

 enhance research on the impacts of fishing and other human 

 activities and to ensure the timely collection, analysis and 

 transparency of reliable, comprehensive and verifiable data; 



ii) an internationally coordinated and controlled system of 

 SURVEILLANCE to determine the nationalities and numbers of 



