Imagine the ocean without fish.

Methyl mercury bio accumulates up the marine food chain to create high concentrations in predatory species of fish such as shark, swordfish and tuna, as well as marine mammals such as whales, dolphins and porpoises.

This is called fishing down the food chain.

Something like a billion people depend on fish, the quantity of fish in the oceans.

I collect biggame fish for various marine institutions.

C. Agreement for the implementation of the provisions of UNCLOS relating to the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks

K. Hinman, Ocean Roulette Conserving Swordfish, Sharks and Other Threatened Pelagic Fish in Longline Infested Water, Virginia National Coalition for Marine Conservation, February 1998, p. 8.

The 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement is an essential contribution to the law of the sea as regards the management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks.

Targeting highly migratory predatory fish species including tuna and swordfish, industrial longlines also catch or kill as many as 4.4 million sea turtles, billfish, sharks, marine mammals and seabirds.

Industrial longline fishing not only threatens marine wildlife but human societies that rely on the ocean for their own well being.

So when the fish control the urchin population, the ocean was restored to its natural equilibrium.

Number of fish to have in the sea.

MPAs offer the added advantage over subsidized industrial fishing by creating regions where the recovery of fish stock and endangered species could take place for less than the cost of subsidizing the global industrial fisheries.

Oceans and the law of the sea sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments

Oceans and the law of the sea sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing

Because MPAs are a proven cost effective way to increase fish stocks, they would be a crucial complement to a moratorium on industrial longline fishing in the Pacific.

It pretty much works with any big fish in the ocean, so here we go.

Fishing gear can inflict lethal cuts and wounds on fish and marine wildlife.

These tuna swim the entire ocean.

The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service notes that the U.S. West Coast longline, gillnet and other fishing for highly migratory species (such as tuna and swordfish) make up only a small portion of overall fisheries related business in most ports and communities.

Oceans and the law of the sea Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments 75 (a) and (b) joint debate

Or you throw it into the ocean and some fish will benefit from it.

For example, the U.S. agency NOAA Fisheries reopened the Hawaiian pelagic longline fishery in spring 2004 with mackerel bait, circle hooks and training in de hooking sea turtles in place of closures.

Iraq also agrees that the coastal oil trench and oil deposit areas in Kuwait Bay are possible sources of oil impacting these locations.

I will focus on three main topics in my statement today the evaluation of the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement, the sustainable management of living marine resources and protection of the marine environment, and maritime security.

264. Harmful fishing practices have also caused an annual discarding of an estimated 20 million tons of fish44 as well as the taking of a large number of incidental catches of sharks, marine mammals, turtles and seabirds. Such practices have adversely affected marine biodiversity.

The international legal framework within which commercial vessels flying Ukraine's flag can fish on the high seas consists of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Fish Stocks Agreement and the 1980 Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

20. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty seventh session, under the item entitled Oceans and the law of the sea , the sub item entitled Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks .

The draft resolutions are (i) Oceans and the Law of the Sea agenda item 39 (a) (ii) Agreement for the implementation of the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks agenda item 39 (b) and (iii) Large scale pelagic drift net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and fisheries by catch and discards agenda item 39 (c) .

Marine debris is a global transboundary pollution problem that constitutes a serious threat to human health and safety, endangers fish stocks, marine biodiversity and marine habitats and has significant costs to local and national economies.

(b) Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks

(b) Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks

The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

Recalling the importance of marine science in promoting the sustainable management of the oceans and seas, including in the assessment, conservation, management and sustainable use of fish stocks,

56th meeting Oceans and the law of the sea Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments 75 (a) and (b) joint debate

Oceans and the law of the sea Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments 75 (a) and (b) draft resolutions (A 60 L.22 and A 60 L.23)

54th meeting Oceans and the law of the sea Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments 75 (a) and (b) joint debate

55th plenary meeting Oceans and the law of the sea Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments 75 (a) and (b) joint debate

10. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty second session, under an item entitled quot Oceans and law of the sea quot , the sub item entitled quot Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks quot . 77th plenary meeting

11. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty fourth session, under an item entitled quot Oceans and law of the sea quot , the sub item entitled quot Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks quot .

This tuna is actually moving on a numerical ocean.

Oceans and the law of the sea large scale pelagic drift net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the high seas, fisheries by catch and discards, and other developments

56 13. Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks

57 143. Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks