Conservation and Management Measure for Vessels without Nationality (CMM 2009-09). Country/Territory Document type Regulation Date 2009 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Fisheries Keyword Marine fisheries Fishery management and conservation Data collection/reporting Fishing vessel Registration Offences/penalties High seas Abstract This Conservation and Management Measure of the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), recalling the FAO International Plan of Action to prevent, deter and eliminate Illegal Unregulated and Unreported fishing, declares that fishing vessels determined to be vessels without nationality under the relevant provisions of international law that are used to fish on the high seas of the Convention Area are presumed to be operating in contravention of the Convention and the conservation and management measures adopted thereunder. Such fishing shall be deemed to undermine the Convention and Commission conservation and management measures and shall constitute a serious violation in accordance with Article 25 of the Convention. Any sightings of fishing vessels that appear to be without nationality that may be fishing in the high seas of the Convention Area for species covered by the WCPF Convention shall be reported to the Secretariat as soon as possible by the appropriate authorities of the CCM whose vessel or aircraft made the sighting. For the purpose of this measure, vessels without nationality means vessels not flying the flag of any state or vessels flying the flag of two or more states in accordance with Article 92 of UNCLOS. Full text English Website www.wcpfc.int