A/RES/71/123 United Nations Distr.: General 13 February 2017 General Assembly Seventy-first session Agenda item 73 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2016 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.24 and Add.1)] 71/123. Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments The General Assembly, Reaffirming its annual resolutions on sustainable fisheries, including resolution 70/75 of 8 December 2015, and other relevant resolutions, Recalling the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the Convention), 1 and bearing in mind the relationship between the Convention and the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (the Agreement),2 Welcoming ratifications of and accessions to the Agreement and the fact tha t a growing number of States, entities referred to in the Convention and in article 1, paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement, and subregional and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, have taken measures, as appropriate, towards the implementation of the provisions of the Agreement, in order to improve their management regimes, Acknowledging the report of the resumed Review Conference on the Agreement, held in New York from 23 to 27 May 2016, which reaffirmed and consolidated the recommendations adopted in 2006 and in 2010, and adopted additional recommendations, 3 Taking note of the summary of the discussions at the two-day workshop held on 1 and 2 August 2016 to discuss the implementation of paragraphs 113, 117 and 119 to 124 of resolution 64/72 of 4 December 2009 and paragraphs 121, 126, 129, _______________ 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363. Ibid., vol. 2167, No. 37924. 3 A/CONF.210/2016/5. 2 16-21326 (E) *1621326* Please recycle