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/68/71 ensure the conservation and management of such stocks, and to participate in the work of the organization or arrangement; 113. Urges signatory States and other States whose vessels fish within the area of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Fishery Resources in the South-East Atlantic Ocean 15 for fishery resources covered by that Convention to become parties to that Convention as a matter of priority and, in the interim, to ensure that vessels flying their flags fully comply with the measures adopted; 114. Recalls the entry into force of the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement, and encourages further ratifications, accessions, acceptances and approvals of that Agreement; 115. Also recalls the entry into force of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean, and encourages further ratifications, accessions, acceptances and approvals of that Convention; 116. Encourages States, regional economic integration organizations and the entities referred to in article 1, paragraph 2 (b), of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean that participated in the negotiation of that Convention to fully implement the voluntary interim measures that have been adopted to give effect to paragraphs 80 and 83 to 87 of General Assembly resolution 61/105 until conservation and management measures have been adopted; 117. Welcomes the recent signatures and ratification of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean, and encourages further ratifications, accessions, acceptances and approvals of that Convention; 118. Encourages States that participated in the negotiation of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean to fully implement interim voluntary measures adopted in accordance with paragraphs 80 and 83 to 87 of resolution 61/105 and paragraphs 117, 119, 120, 122 and 123 of resolution 64/72; 119. Notes the ongoing efforts of the members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission to strengthen the functioning of the Commission so that it can more effectively discharge its mandate, and invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to provide members of the Commission with the necessary assistance to this end; 120. Encourages signatory States and States having a real interest to become parties to the Convention for the Strengthening of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Established by the 1949 Convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Costa Rica; 121. Urges the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries 16 that have not yet done so to approve the 2007 Amendment to that Convention with a view to its early entry into effect; _______________ 15 16 22/31 Ibid., vol. 2221, No. 39489. Ibid., vol. 1135, No. 17799.