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PART 2 FAO FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE IN ACTION
addressed implementation of actions required for
deliver y of SDG 14 and resulted in new
commitments (EC, 2017). Reiterating and
building on the commitments made at the UN
Oceans Conference in June, FAO pledged
continued support to the implementation of
components of SDG 14, especially:
„ „ strengthening of fisheries governance and
States’ capacities to prevent, deter and
eliminate IUU fishing through technical
support to developing States Parties;
„ „ upscaling of work to support small-scale
fisheries by raising awareness, strengthening
institutional capacities, empowering small-
scale fisheries organizations, generating and
sharing knowledge, supporting policy reform
and providing technical assistance to support
the implementation of FAO’s Voluntar y
Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-
Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Securit y
and Povert y Eradication (SSF Guidelines)
(FAO, 2015a);
„ „ supporting fish trade so that it can contribute
towards the achievement of the SDGs by
reinforcing the multilateral trading system and
ensuring that trade policies and strategies are
coherent with other enabling national policies.
these actions, catalysing and generating new
voluntary commitments and facilitating
collaboration and networking among different
actors in support of SDG 14. Regional fisheries
bodies (RFBs), regional fisheries management
organization (RFMO) contracting parties,
cooperating non-contracting parties and partner
organizations have picked up the momentum to
deliver on the wide range of SDG 14 target
components by 2020, and have started formalizing
their aspirational goals and commitments in the
process of updating or replacing their constitutive
instruments (FAO, 2017d).
The 2017 High-Level Political Forum on
Sustainable Development (HLPF) conducted an
in-depth review of SDGs 1 (No povert y), 2 (Zero
hunger), 3 (Good health and well-being),
5 (Gender equalit y), 14 (Life below water) and
17 (Partnership for the goals) under the
overarching theme “Eradicating povert y and
promoting prosperit y in a changing world”
(HLPF, 2017a), resulting in a ministerial
declaration (ECOSOC, 2017a) and 43 voluntar y
national reviews (HLPF, 2017b). To support the
discussion of progress on SDG 14, FAO and the
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO-IOC) led a
thematic review of the implementation of its
components and provided recommendations for
future investment on a wide range of ocean
issues (ECESA Plus, 2017), highlighting ongoing
work, opportunities and needs for further action
on key issues: minimizing impacts of ocean
acidification and pollution; reducing harmful
fishing effort (through actions on illegal,
unreported and unreg ulated [IUU] fishing and
removing, where possible, harmful fisher y
subsidies); enhancing effective area management
for the conser vation of biodiversit y; and
strengthening implementation of global
agreements on climate. The HLPF review noted
that much progress was being made and
highlighted current opportunities for nations to
benefit from technological and scientific advances
to support implementation in areas such as data
collection, sharing of information, infrastructure
improvement and capacit y development.
In their pledges, many countries and
organizations directly highlighted the work of
FAO and/or their collaboration with FAO towards
achievement of SDG 14 targets. 11 Most pledges
focused on actions to prevent, deter and
eliminate IUU fishing through both the
Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent,
Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and
Unreg ulated Fishing (PSM A) (FAO, 2017e) and
the Global Record of Fishing Vessels, Refrigerated
Transport Vessels and Supply Vessels (FAO,
2017f ) (see section on combating IUU fishing in
this volume), followed by support for the blue
economy and small-scale fisheries, with decent
work in fisheries and aquaculture also an
important focus.
11  The European Union, Japan, Norway, Philippines, Spain, the
African Confederation of Artisanal Fisheries Professional Organizations
(CAOPA) and the Global Environment Fund (GEF) all directly
highlighted FAO in their pledges.
The fourth Our Ocean conference, hosted by the
European Union (Malta, October 2017), also
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