TITLE IIMANAGEMENT, CONSERVATION AND CONTROL MEASURES CONCERNING CERTAIN SPECIES
CHAPTER ITropical tunas
Article 9Management plans in respect of fish-aggregating devices
1.
In respect of purse seine and baitboat catching vessels fishing for tropical tunas in association with fish-aggregating devices (FADs), F1a fisheries administration must, by 31 January of each year, submit to the F2ICCAT Secretariat management plans for the use of such FADs by vessels F3in its fleet. F4...
2.
The objective of the management plans referred to in paragraph 1 shall be to:
(a)
improve the knowledge about FAD characteristics, buoy characteristics, FAD fishing, including fishing effort, and related impacts on targeted and non-targeted species;
(b)
effectively manage the deployment and recovery of FADs and beacons and their potential loss;
(c)
reduce and limit the impacts of FADs and FAD fishing on the ecosystem, including, where appropriate, by acting on the different components of the fishing mortality (e.g. number of deployed FADs, including number of FAD sets by purse seiners, fishing capacity, number of support vessels).
3.
The management plans referred to in paragraph 1 shall contain the information set out in Annex II.