{"id":9565,"date":"2015-12-23T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2015\/12\/23\/imo-urges-fishing-vessel-treaty-acceptance\/"},"modified":"2015-12-23T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T11:40:00","slug":"imo-urges-fishing-vessel-treaty-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/imo-urges-fishing-vessel-treaty-acceptance\/","title":{"rendered":"IMO urges fishing vessel treaty acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The resolution on entry into force and implementation of the 2012 Cape Town Agreement calls for the early acceptance of the treaty, as a means to address the alarmingly high number of fishermen&#8217;s lives and of fishing vessels lost every year.<\/p>\n<p>It aims to implement the provisions of the 1993 Protocol relating to the Torremolinos International Convention for the Safety of Fishing Vessels, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>To date, only five countries have accepted the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>During the session, the Assembly also adopted a number of resolutions, including one commending the role of merchant shipping in rescuing mixed migrants at sea.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly also endorsed the decision of the Council to elect Mr Kitack Lim (Republic of Korea) as Secretary-General for an initial four-year term, beginning 1 January 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IMO Assembly has called on Member States to accept the 2012 Cape Town fishing vessel safety agreement at its 29th session at IMO Headquarters in London, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}