Improving national capacity to monitor marine living resources

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. Agenda 21 recommends developing research capacity for assessment of marine living resource populations and monitoring.

1. States, with the support, where appropriate, of relevant international organizations, whether subregional, regional or global, should cooperate to develop or upgrade systems and institutional structures for monitoring, control and surveillance, as well as the research capacity for assessment of marine living resource populations.

1. Mapping ocean resources

1. Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources under national jurisdiction
2. Ensuring sustainable use of marine living resources of the high seas

1. Undercapacity
2. Overcapacity
3. Capacity