United Nations Sustainable Fisheries Resolution - A/RES/74/18 - 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
(2019):
https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/74/18:" Recognizing further that abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear, including ghost fishing gear, is an increasingly pervasive and destructive form of marine debris causing adverse impacts on fish stocks, marine life and the marine environment and that urgent preventative action is needed, such as the marking of fishing gear as proposed by the Committee on Fisheries, as well as removal action"- A/RES/74/19. Oceans and the law of the sea, available at
https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/74/19
