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Emphasizes the need for protecting and conserving the total living resources of ocean space through concerted environmental action;
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Stresses that both national and international action is needed to preserve and enhance the quality of ocean life and to protect the resources of the marine environment;
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Underlines the fact that a number of the world's important living ocean resources are at present threatened by depletion for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is overfishing in certain areas of the world's seas and oceans;
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Requeststhe Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to consider and decide upon making a detailed survey of the living marine resources of the world's sea, and oceans threatened with depletion, to he carried out by the United Nations Environment Progrnmmc in co--opcration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and to be submitted to the Governing Council at its third session;
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Further requeststhe Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Progra~me to continue to direct special attention to the question of environmental protection of the seas and oceans, in particular its living marine resources, and to report thereon. as well as on the implementation of the present rcsolu-- tion. to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session;
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Emphasizes the importance of the task of the Third United Nation,; Conference on the Law of the Sea in rdati,111 to the preservation of the marine environment, taking into account recommendation 92. of the Action Plan for the Human Environment",; as approved by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.
M See R,·port of 1/1(' United Nations Conference on rhe 51 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-eighth 55 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twt'nty-cighth Session, Sui'plcmc11t No. 25 ( A.19025 ).
56 See R1,port of th,, U11iu·d Nations Confcrenc,, on tlzl' 5~ Ibid., Twenty-eighth Session, Second Committee, 1563rd
