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Port inspections of fishing vessels carrying Antarctic marine living resources (Conservation Measure 10-03 of 2015).

Country/Territory
Document type
Regulation
Date
2015
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Marine fisheries Fishery management and conservation Marine fishes Data collection/reporting International relations/cooperation Inspection Landing Harbour Enforcement/compliance Offences/penalties Foreign fishing
Abstract

This Measure of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), concerns obligations of Contracting Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources on port state control of port inspections of fish which enter their ports. All fishing vessels carrying Dissostichus spp. and at least 50 percent of fishing vessels that enter their ports carrying species other than Dissostichus spp. that were harvested in the Convention Area and that have not been previously landed or transhipped at a port shall be inspected. There is established a priority of inspection for vessels not carrying Dissostichus spp. This Measure sets out criteria and procedures of inspection. Inspections shall be carried out in accordance with international law, and shall be conducted within 48 hours of port entry and shall be carried out in an expeditious fashion. Contracting Parties shall deny entry into ports or prohibit landing or transhipping the catch in certain circumstances or take other monitoring, control, surveillance or enforcement action of equivalent or greater severity in accordance with international law. All port inspection reports shall consist of the completed template provided in Annex 10-03/A and, if it is determined that harvesting activities were conducted in the Convention Area, the port inspection report will include the completed template provided in Annex 10-03/B.

Full text
English
Website
www.ccamlr.org