The government will ratify the 1995 U.N. Fish Stocks Agreement that aims to protect tuna, bonito and other types of migratory fish that primarily live in the high seas, officials said Wednesday.

The government plans to endorse the decision at a Cabinet meeting soon and obtain Diet approval during the current legislative session.

U.N. member states agreed on the pact in 1995, based on recommendations made at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Japan signed it in 1996 but has yet to ratify it.