Safety and Health in the Fishing Industry

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Safety and Health in the Fishing Industry

Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on Safety and Health in the Fishing Industry

Geneva, 13-17 December 1999

International Labour Office Geneva

Cover photographs: ILO/J. Maillard
and Leif Magne Vik

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Annex 2

Resolution concerning the application of revised
Convention No. 9 to the fisheries sector⁽¹⁾

The General Conference of the International Labour Organization,

Recognizing the current crisis in the fishing industry which has serious repercussions on the labour and social standards of fishermen and which has resulted in the abandonment of many crew members of fishing vessels in ports worldwide without any recourse to compensation for lost earnings and assistance with repatriation except from charitable organizations,

Recognizing also the increasing globalization of the industry which has led to the recruitment and placement of fishermen on board foreign flag vessels and the important initiatives undertaken by other international fora with regard to the management and conservation of fish stocks,

Noting the urgent need to apply international labour standards to fishermen and to expressly extend a number of the international labour maritime standards to the fishing sector,

Noting also the adoption of the Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers Convention, 1996,

Invites the Governing Body of the International Labour Office to:

(1) promote the application to fishermen of the Recruitment and Placement of Seafarers Convention, 1996, by Members following consultations between representative organizations of fishermen and fishing vessel owners and the competent authority;
(2) convene an early tripartite meeting for the fishing sector to assess which of the other ILO maritime instruments should be applied to the fishing sector through the adoption of appropriate protocols, and/or the adoption of new international labour standards for the sector and in this regard to place the issue of new labour standards for fishermen on the agenda of an early session of the International Labour Conference.

1. Adopted on 21 Oct. 1996 at the 84th (Maritime) Session of the International Labour Conference.

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