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Recommendation GFCM/44/2021/21 on vessel sightings.

Country/Territory
Document type
Regulation
Date
2021
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Data collection/reporting Enforcement/compliance Fishery management and conservation Fishing area Fishing authorization Fishing vessel Foreign fishing Harbour High seas Inspection International relations/cooperation Marine fisheries Monitoring Precautionary principle Protection of species Authorization/permit
Abstract

The contracting parties and cooperating non-contracting parties shall collect, through enforcement and surveillance operations conducted by their competent authorities in the GFCM area of application, as much information as possible whenever a foreign-flagged vessel or vessel with undetermined or without nationality is sighted as engaged in fishing or fishing-related activities (e.g. transshipment) that are presumed to be illegal, unreported, and unregulated, as defined under paragraph 1 of Recommendation GFCM/44/2021/19 on the establishment of a list of vessels presumed to have carried out illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The sighting contracting parties and cooperating non-contracting parties shall, without delay, notify and provide the sighting information sheet as well as any recorded images of the vessel to the competent authorities of the flag contracting parties and cooperating non-contracting parties or flag non-contracting party of the sighted vessel. The contracting parties and cooperating non-contracting parties are encouraged, upon the consent of the flag state, to board and inspect vessels of non-contracting parties conducting fishing or fishing-related activities on species covered by GFCM fisheries management measures, in waters beyond national jurisdiction in the GFCM area of application. Relevant information collected from such boardings shall be reported to the GFCM Secretariat. The Annex to this Recommendation provides an indicative list of information to be collected and reported in the sighting information sheet which should be used for communicating information on vessel sightings to the GFCM Secretariat.

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