these recommendations have stimulated concrete actions to improve the sustainability of high seas fisheries the resumed review conference to be held in may provide another excellent opportunity for states parties and states nonparties to cooperate in improving the governance of high seas fisheries by reviewing and assessing the adequacy of the provisions of the agreement and if necessary proposing means of strengthening the substance and methods of implementation of those provisions it has played a central role in norm and policysetting in the field of oceans and the law of the sea including sustainable fisheries in for example it established a global moratorium on the use of largescale pelagic driftnet fishing on the high seas