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Article 42 Reporting obligations for sea turtles

United Kingdom

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1.

F1A fisheries administration must collect and transmit to the ICCAT Secretariat, by 31 July each year, the information on the interactions of vessels in its fleet with sea turtles in ICCAT fisheries by gear type. The Commission shall forward that information to the ICCAT Secretariat by 31 July of each year. That information shall include:

(a)

catch rates, gear characteristics, times and locations, target species and disposition status (i.e. discarded dead or released alive);

(b)

a breakdown of interactions by sea turtle species; and

(c)

the nature of the hooking or entanglement (including with FADs), bait type, hook size and type, and the size of the animal.

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Art. 42(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 7(38)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2

Art. 42(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 7(38)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)