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/71/123 143. Encourages further ratifications of, accessions to, acceptances and approvals of the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement; 26 144. Also encourages further ratifications of, accessions to, acceptances and approvals of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean; 27 145. Further encourages further ratifications, accessions, acceptances and approvals of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean; 146. Welcomes the adoption of conservation and management measures by the North Pacific Fisheries Commission in place of the interim voluntary measures referred to in paragraph 138 of resolution 70/75, and the conservation and management measures adopted under the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement; 147. Welcomes the endorsement of the Agreement for the establishment of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean, as amended, by the Commission at its thirty-eighth session, held in Rome from 19 to 24 May 2014, and urges those Contracting Parties to the Commission that need to accept the amended Agreement to do so with a view to its early entry into force; 148. 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 neces sary assistance to this end; 149. 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; 150. Urges the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries 28 that have not yet done so to approve the 2007 Amendment to that Convention with a view to its early entry into effect; 151. Urges further efforts by regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, as a matter of priority, in accordance with international law, to strengthen and modernize their mandates and the measures adopted by such organizations or arrangements, and to implement modern approaches to fisheries management, as reflected in the Agreement and other relevant international instruments, relying on the best scientific information available and application of the precautionary approach and incorporating an ecosystem approach to fisheries management and biodiversity considerations, including the conservation and management of ecologically related and dependent species and protection of their habitats, where these aspects are lacking, to ensure that they effe ctively contribute to long-term conservation and management and sustainable use of living marine resources, and welcomes those regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements that have taken steps in this direction; _______________ 26 Ibid., vol. 2835, No. 49647. Ibid., vol. 2899, No. 50553. 28 Ibid., vol. 1135, No. 17799. 27 28/40