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G. EFFECTIVE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS 



15. Effective international mechanisms are needed to assist in 

 fisheries reform. The adoption of a global "flagging" convention, 

 for example, has the .potential for ensuring more effective 

 compliance with conservation and management rules for' fishing 

 activities on the high seas. Among other tasks, such mechanisms 

 should provide for: 



effective monitoring, control, surveillance and 

 enforcement of fishing activities; 



- periodic global review of the effectiveness of, and 

 compliance with, regional and other international fisheries 

 agreements, and appropriate 'structures and mechanisms for bringing 

 actions (eg,- fines, denial of port acess) against States/other 

 parties that fail to conserve and ensure accountability of such 

 agreements; 



- periodic environmental impact, assessments of fishing and 

 other human activities (eg, oil spills, land-based sources of 

 pollution, Plutonium transport by sea, climate change) impacting 

 marine environments; and 



- a global fisheries Conservation Fund. 



16. Regarding the "Conservation Fund", the UN FAO estimates thait 

 9-12 inillion tons of fish were caught on the high seas in 1989 and 

 that 6 csuntries — USSR, Japan, Spain, Poland, Republic of Korea, 

 and Taiwan Province of China -- accounted for approximately 90% of 

 distant water fish catches. FAO is unclear regarding distant water 

 catches on the high seas compared to distant water catches in. other 

 countries EEZs; but it appears that relatively few countries are 

 responsible for the majority of fishing on ' the high seas. Fees 

 should be assessed for fishing in international waters -- in effect 

 the global commons — with the revenues placed in a Fund that would 

 be administered and operated jointly by governmental and NGO 

 representatives. The main focus of the Fund should be: i) financing 

 global mechanisms necessary for the conservation and management of 

 high seas fisheries; and ii) conservation and protection of habitat 

 (eg, mangrove swamps and other coastal wetlands, coral reefs) for 

 straddling and highly migratory fish stocks, capacity building for 

 fishworkers and fishing communities) within EEZs, primarily for the 

 benefit of less industrialized countries. 



17. As representatives of the undersigned NGOs, we urge delegates 

 participating in this Conference to include, the above ' stated 

 recommendations, actions and initiatives as key components of the 

 results of the Conference. 



AGREED AND ENDORSED BY : 



[List of 127 Endorsements Separately Appended to this Statement] 



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