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IV. COASTAL AND MARINE RESOURCES:
This chapter aims at
developing SIDS' management capacities both in the coastal area and
in their Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). This can best be achieved
through the elaboration of an integrated coastal zone management
methodology appropriate to SIDS, monitoring programmes for coastal
and marine resources, developing capacities for sustainable
harvesting and processing of fisheries resources and establishing
clearing houses for coastal and marine environmental information.
The capabilities of SIDS to effectively survey and monitor of
activities in the EEZs need to be developed, as does cooperation to
facilitate mutually advantageous fishing agreements between SIDS
and foreign fishing groups. In this respect, participation of SIDS
in the UN Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory
Fish Stocks is to be encouraged and facilitated. Some delegates
required clarification on points such as foreign fishing within
SIDS' EEZs or on the high seas and so this issue was one of the few
in this chapter where consensus was not immediate.