Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Act [ Fisheries Development Act ]

Latin American Fisheries Development Organisation | Latin American Organisation for Fisheries Development | OLDEPESCA [Abbr.]

An Act to amend the Fisheries Development Act

World Conference on fisheries management and development | World Fisheries Conference

Fishing Vessels Officers' Certificates Act

Federal Act of 21 June 1991 on Fishing [ FishA ]

Ordinance of 24 November 1993 to the Federal Act on Fish and Fisheries [ FFO ]

Federal Act of 20 March 2009 on the Future Development of Railways Infrastructure [ FDRIO ]

19. Stresses the importance of the creation of the Spanish Coastal Law Working Group, which could pave the way for other such initiatives, and which has been closely studying related petitions and the modification of the law; reiterates the importance of direct contact with the Spanish national authorities in this respect and stresses the urgent need for further intensified cooperation to find a better balance between property rights and their social function, and better solutions when the ultimate goal of the protection of the environment requires expropriation; expresses its fears that the new coastal law approved by the Spanish Parl ...[+++]iament is not succeeding in resolving the concerns of petitioners, nor are there any plans for the further environmental protection of Spain’s coastal areas;

Cambodia did not sign or ratify any of the international agreements governing fisheries, inter alia, the Unclos, the UNFSA, the FAO Compliance Agreement, but it has ratified the 1958 Geneva Convention on the High Seas (22) and acceded to the 1958 Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone (23) and it has accepted the Regional Plan of Action to promote responsible fishing practices including combating IUU fishing in the Asia-Pacific Fisheries Committee (APFIC) (APFIC RPOA) (24), as well as the Regional Guidelines for responsible fishing operations in Southeast Asia (RGRFO-SEA) (25) issued by the Southeast Asian ...[+++]Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec) (26).

Despite these limitations, accentuated by an unstable political and financial environment and by the structural difficulties of the fisheries administration, the ex-post assessment of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement shows notable improvements on agreed strategic objectives such as strengthened fisheries monitoring control and surveillance capacity and sanitary inspection capacity, and there have been positive steps in drafting of new legislation, fisheries statistics and resource management.

5. Notes that in many developing countries fisheries, particularly small-scale fishing, and related industries play a vital role in ensuring food security, creating jobs, generating government revenues and exports and maintaining local communities; considers it essential that the interests of the local population and their sovereign rights over natural resources are taken into account; is concerned that illegal fishing can contribute to migration and seriously undermine sustainable development; emphasises therefore the fact that EU fisheries agreements with developing countries help foster domestic fishing industries, (focusing in par ...[+++]ticular on small and medium-sized fishing operators and firms), monitor fish stocks, combat overfishing and illegal fishing, protect biodiversity and support and foster improvements in hygiene and health standards;