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Conservation and Management Measure to establish a List of Vessels presumed to have carried out Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing activities in the WCPO (CMM 2019–07).

Country/Territory
Document type
Regulation
Date
2019
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Marine fisheries Fishery management and conservation Monitoring Data collection/reporting Fishing vessel Offences/penalties
Abstract

This Conservation and Management Measure of the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), recalling the International Plan of Action to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IPOA-IUU), requires the Commission to identify at each annual meeting those vessels which have engaged in fishing activities for species covered by the Convention within the Convention Area (WCPO) in a manner which has undermined the effectiveness of the WCPF Convention and the WCPFC measures in force, and to establish, and, as necessary, amend in subsequent years, a list of such vessels (the IUU Vessel List), in accordance with the procedures and criteria set out in this Conservation Measure. For the purposes of this Conservation Measure, vessels fishing for species covered by the WCPFC Convention are presumed to have carried out IUU fishing activities, as described in the IPOA on IUU fishing, in the Convention Area when a CCM presents suitably documented information that such vessels have carried out actions specified in this CMM or are under the control of the owner of any vessel on the WCPFC IUU Vessel List. The CMM sets out the procedures for preparing (draft, provisional or final) IUU Vessel Lists.

Full text
English
Website
www.wcpfc.int