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;
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Ibid., vol. 2221, No. 39489.
Ibid., vol. 1135, No. 17799.