A/RES/45/184
                                                        71st plenary meeting
                                                        21 December 1990
 
                  Co-operation in fisheries in Africa
 
      The General Assembly,
 
      Recalling its resolution 39/225 of 18 December 1984, by which it endorsed
 the Strategy for Fisheries Management and Development and the associated
 programmes of action adopted by the World Conference on Fisheries Management
 and Development,
 
      Recalling also its resolution 44/225 of 22 December 1989, entitled
 "Large-scale pelagic driftnet fishing and its impact on the living marine
 resources of the world's oceans and seas",
 
      Recognizing the significant contribution that fisheries can make to
 economic growth and development of the developing countries through food
 self-sufficiency, the improvement of nutrition and the diversification of
 exports,
 
      Bearing in mind the significant capabilities that exist in developing
 countries in the field of fisheries, which provide opportunities for
 co-operation among those countries, and the importance of fostering the
 development of those capabilities to help developing countries realize their
 full potential in this regard,
 
      Considering the need for African countries to develop inter-State
 co-operation in order to promote the development of the fishery sector,
 
      1.   Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1990/77 of
 27 July 1990, entitled "Co-operation in fisheries in Africa", as adopted;
 
      2.   Takes note of the Ministerial Conference on Co-operation in
 Fisheries Among the African States Bordering the Atlantic Ocean, held at Rabat
 from 30 March to 1 April 1989, and of the meeting of the follow-up committee,
 held also at Rabat, from 29 to 31 May 1990;
 
      3.   Requests Member States to make full use of advanced marine training
 centres in Africa, to promote the exchange of information and the joint
 negotiation of fisheries agreements concerning the high-seas fleets of
 non-African countries, to accord greater importance to the development of
 small-scale fishing, to improve the living conditions of African fishermen, to
 acknowledge the role of women in fisheries, to strengthen fish marketing and
 preservation facilities and to facilitate the access of African fishery
 products to the markets of developed countries;
 
      4.   Requests the relevant international organizations to contribute
 actively to the promotion of co-operation in fisheries in Africa, including
 participation in the preparations and work for the forthcoming ministerial
 conference on co-operation in fisheries among the African States bordering the
 Atlantic Ocean, which is scheduled to take place in 1991;
 
      5.   Requests the Secretary-General to submit, in close consultation with
 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to the General
 Assembly at its forty-seventh session, through the Economic and Social Council
 at its second regular session of 1992, a report on co-operation in fisheries
 in Africa, including recommendations for its enhancement;
 
      6.   Also requests the Secretary-General to include in his report ways
 and means to develop the potential capabilities of developing countries in
 fisheries, including economic and technical co-operation, particularly among
 developing countries;
 
      7.   Calls upon the international community, in particular the developed
 countries, to support the endeavours of developing countries to develop their
 fisheries infrastructures;
 
      8.   Decides to consider the issue of co-operation in fisheries in Africa
 at its forty-seventh session under the item entitled "Development and
 international economic co-operation".