General Assembly Adopts Resolution Aimed at Ensuring Sustainability of World’s Fisheries, as It Holds Annual Debate on UN Regime Protecting Seas, Oceans
Postpones Action on Annual Omnibus Text on Law of the Sea; Work of Continental Shelf Commission, Marine Biodiversity among Issues Highlighted by Some 30 Speakers
In the face of the increasingly devastating scourge of climate change and a global financial crisis that demanded the smarter use of natural resources, delegates in the General Assembly stressed today that urgent action was needed in efforts to sustainably manage the world oceans and marine ecosystems.
To that end, the Assembly today adopted by consensus a resolution on sustainable fisheries, by which it expressed concern over the current and projected negative impacts of climate change on the world’s food security. It further stated its concern that illegal, unreported and unregulated fishingconstituted a serious threat to fish stocks and marine habitats and ecosystems, putting the economies of many States — particularly developing States, who were frequently the most vulnerable to risks related to climate change and economic crises — in danger.
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