IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim urges States to take action to achieve entry into force of Cape Town fishing vessel safety agreement. States are being urged to take action to bring into force the Cape Town Agreement of 2012, a key international treaty which will establish an international regime for fishing vessel safety.
This will help make fishing safe, sustainable and legal – and make a significant contribution to the protection of fishers, an unacceptable high number of whom lose their...