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Conservation and Management Measure 2022-06 on Daily Catch and Effort Reporting.

Country/Territory
Document type
Regulation
Date
2022
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Cartilaginous fishes Data collection/reporting EEZ-Exclusive Economic Zone Enforcement/compliance Fishery management and conservation Fishing vessel High seas Marine fisheries Marine fishes Monitoring Offences/penalties Protection of species Maritime zone
Entry into force notes
This CMM will come into effect on 1 January 2024.
Abstract

This Conservation and Management Measure (CMM) of the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), expresses concern that full and accurate data from fishing vessels is required to inform stock assessment and other scientific evaluation and wishing ensure consistent levels of reporting and usefulness of data for all vessels fishing in the Convention Area. This CMM requires each Commission Members, Cooperating Non-Members and participating Territories (CCMs) to ensure that the master of each vessel flying its flag in the Convention Area shall complete an accurate electronic log of every day that it spends on the high seas of the Convention Area, including trips that include fishing in an EEZ under bilateral arrangements as well as high seas in one trip. Fishing vessels less than 24 meters in length may keep a daily written log until 1 January 2026 and troll vessels targeting albacore may keep a daily written log until 1 January 2025, by which time they shall keep a daily electronic log. Information shall include, among other things, data on catch of other species required to be reported by CCMs under other Commission decisions such as, inter alia, key shark species according to FAO species codes. Each CCM shall also require the master of each vessel flying its flag in the Convention Area to submit to the Commission the required information electronically by April 30 of the following year as required by Scientific Data to be provided to the Commission, and where possible in accordance with the agreed Standards, Specifications and Procedures for Electronic Reporting in the WCPFC – operational catch and effort data. Non-compliance with this measure shall be considered in accordance with CMM 2019-07 or its successor.

Full text
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Website
cmm.wcpfc.int