Agenda Urbana de Arteixo

14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution.

14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid major adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take steps to restore them in order to restore the health and productivity of the oceans.

14.3 Minimize and address the effects of ocean acidification, including through greater scientific cooperation at all levels.

14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate fishing and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices, and implement science-based management plans to restore fish stocks as quickly as possible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield in accordance with their biological characteristics.

14.5 By 2020, conserve at least 10% of coastal and marine areas, in accordance with national laws and international law and on the basis of the best available scientific information.

14.6 By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new subsidies of this kind, recognizing that negotiations on fisheries subsidies under the World Trade Organization should include special and differential treatment, appropriate and effective, for developing countries and least developed countries¹.

¹ Taking into account the ongoing negotiations of the World Trade Organization, the Doha Development Agenda and the mandate of the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration.

14.7 By 2030, increase the economic benefits that small island developing States and least developed countries derive from the sustainable use of marine resources, in particular through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism.

14.a Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Criteria and Guidelines for Marine Technology Transfer of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, in order to improve the health of the oceans and enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries.

14.b Facilitate access for artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets.

14.c Improve the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources by applying international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which constitutes the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of the document “The Future We Want”.