Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources under national jurisdiction

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources

1. Surveying marine living resources
2. Prohibiting destructive fishing practices
3. Integrating small scale artisanal fisheries development in marine planning
4. Including interests of coastal peoples in fisheries development strategies
5. Improving national quality control for seafood
6. Developing sustainable coastal fishing policy

1. Increasing productivity of marine living resources
2. Expanding recreational and tourist activities based on marine living resources

1. Transferring fishing technology to local communities
2. Transferring environmentally sound fishery technology
3. Strengthening national capacities for conservation of marine living resources
4. Strengthening local understanding and sustainable use of marine living resources
5. Strengthening international cooperation on enclosed and semi-enclosed seas
6. Strengthening capacity of developing countries for sustainable use of marine living resources
7. Respecting rights of small-scale farming workers
8. Increasing international cooperation on the conservation of cetaceans
9. Increasing efficient use of marine living resources for food
10. Increasing contribution of marine living resources to food security in developing countries
11. Incorporating traditional knowledge of marine living resources in management plans
12. Including marine living resources in curricula at all education levels
13. Including interests of indigenous people in international agreements
14. Improving national capacity to monitor marine living resources
15. Improving data collection on conservation of marine living resources
16. Improving coordination among international fishery agencies
17. Expanding multidisciplinary research on marine living resources
18. Exchanging fisheries information
19. Establishing sustainable aquaculture development strategies
20. Developing environmentally sound technology for sustainable use of marine living resources
21. Developing criteria for fishing practices to minimize waste and by-catch
22. Conducting research on areas of special importance for marine living resources
23. Assisting developing countries' ocean fisheries
24. Conserving global marine biological diversity

1. Managing water resources for sustainable rural development

1. Unused
2. Unsustainable
3. Underuse
4. Abuse

1. Agenda 21