TITLE IIMANAGEMENT, CONSERVATION AND CONTROL MEASURES CONCERNING CERTAIN SPECIES
CHAPTER VIISea turtles
Article 42Reporting obligations for sea turtles
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.
F22.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .