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 A/RES/72/72 67. Encourages States to consider signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to the Cape Town Agreement of 2012 on the Implementation of the Provisions of the Torremolinos Protocol of 1993 relating to t he Torremolinos International Convention for the Safety of Fishing Vessels, 1977; IV Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing 68. Emphasizes once again its serious concern that illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing remains one of the greatest threats to fish stocks and marine ecosystems and continues to have serious and major implications for the conservation and management of ocean resources, as well as the food security and the economies of many States, particularly developing States, and renews its call upon States to comply fully with all existing obligations and to combat such fishing and urgently to take all steps necessary to implement the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fi shing; 69. Takes note of resolution 9/2017, entitled “Observance of the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing ”, adopted by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its fortieth session; 20 70. Proclaims 5 June the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, to draw attention to the threats posed by illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities to the sustainable use of fis heries resources as well as to ongoing efforts to fight these activities, invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to serve as lead agency for the International Day, in collaboration with other relevant organizations and bodies o f the United Nations system, and stresses that the cost of all activities that may arise from the implementation of the present paragraph above and beyond activities currently within the mandate of the implementing agency should be met from voluntary contributions; 71. Recalls that, in “The future we want”, States acknowledged that illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing deprive many countries of a crucial natural resource and remain a persistent threat to their sustainable development and recommitted to eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing as advanced in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, and to prevent and combat those practices, including by developing and implementing national and regional action plans in accordance with the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, implementing, in accordance with international law, effective and coordinated measures by coastal States, flag States, port States, chartering nations and the States of nationality of the beneficial owners and others who support or engage in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing by identifying vessels engaged in such fishing and by depriving offenders of the benefits accruing from it, as well as by cooperating with developing countries to systematically identify needs and build capacity, including support for monitoring, control, surveillance, compliance and enforcement systems; 72. Notes with satisfaction the development of an increasing number of national plans of action to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, and calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider developing such plans; 73. Urges flag States to strengthen effective jurisdiction and contr ol over vessels flying their flag, and to exercise due diligence, including by developing or __________________ 20 16/38 See Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, document C/2017/REP, a ppendix J. 17-21818