one of the most serious gaps in the implementation of relevant outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development is in the area of fisheries although countries agreed in the johannesburg plan of implementation to restore global fish stocks to sustainable levels by stocks continue to be fished at increasingly unsustainable levels to address this problem states should recommit to maintaining or restoring depleted fish stocks to sustainable levels and should further commit to implementing sciencebased management plans for rebuilding stocks by including reducing or suspending fishing catch for all stocks being overfished or at risk of being overfished