• Resolution on Promotion of Coastal Fisheries and Resource Management in Singapore in 2006
  • Resolution on Promotion of Coastal Fisheries and Resource
    Management
  • We participants in the General Meeting of International Cooperative Fisheries Organization of the International Cooperative Alliance held at Pan Pacific Hotel & Resorts in Singapore on 16 November, 2006,
  • Recognizing that fishery resources are exhaustible natural resources that can be depleted by over-exploitation, but they are renewable with proper fishery resource management,
  • Recognizing that fisheries are not only an economic activity, but are also contributive to food security, and to the maintenance and development of rural fishing communities,
  • Recognizing that sound fishery resources are the fundamental basis for sustainable development of fisheries
  • Recognizing that in order to ensure sustainable development of fisheries and fishing communities, fishery resource management is one of the important keys, and for this purpose, appropriate measures to deter illegal fishing that leads to over-fishing must be implemented,
  • Recognizing also that coastal fisheries and/or small scale fisheries constitute the majority of fisheries in the world
  • Resolved as follows:
  • 1. ICFO member organizations are determined to promote sound development of fisheries through implementation of appropriate
  • resource management complying with national, regional and international laws and regulations; and
  • 2. In particular, in view of the importance of coastal and small-scale fisheries, ICFO member organizations will make utmost efforts
  • to promote coastal fisheries.
  • 3. Governments should assist fishers to organize and manage coastal fisheries resources.
  • 16 November, 2006
  • Singapore
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