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12/01 | Resolution 12/01 On the implementation of the precautionary approach | 6 |
Instruct the IOTC Scientific Committee to assess, through the management strategy evaluation process, the performance of reference points, including any interim reference points, and of potential harvest control rules to be applied as the status of the stocks approaches the reference points. |
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12/01 | Resolution 12/01 On the implementation of the precautionary approach | 7 |
After completion of the management strategy evaluation, the IOTC Scientific Committee should provide the Commission with recommended reference points for all major stocks, and cast future advice on the status of the stocks relative to the adopted reference points, on the basis of the best available scientific evidence. |
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12/01 | Resolution 12/01 On the implementation of the precautionary approach | 8 |
The IOTC Scientific Committee will report on the progress of the management strategy evaluation process at the Commission Session in 2014, with a view to confirming or updating any interim reference points and associated harvest control rules. |
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12/02 | Resolution 12/02 Data confidentiality policy and procedures |
The policy for releasing catch-and-effort, length-frequency and observer data will be as follows: Standard stratification
Finer level stratification
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12/02 | Resolution 12/02 Data confidentiality policy and procedures | 1 |
The following policy and procedures on confidentiality of data will apply: |
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12/02 | Resolution 12/02 Data confidentiality policy and procedures | 3 |
The policy for releasing tagging data will be as follows:
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12/02 | Resolution 12/02 Data confidentiality policy and procedures | 4 |
Procedures for safeguarding records and databases will be as follows:
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12/02 | Resolution 12/02 Data confidentiality policy and procedures | 5 |
Data submitted to IOTC Working Parties and the IOTC Scientific Committee will be retained by the IOTC Secretariat or made available for other analyses only with the permission of the source. |
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12/02 | Resolution 12/02 Data confidentiality policy and procedures | 6 |
The above rules of confidentiality will apply to all members of IOTC Working Parties and the IOTC Scientific Committee. |
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12/02 | Resolution 12/02 Data confidentiality policy and procedures | 7 |
This Resolution supersedes Resolution 98/02 Data Confidentiality Policy and Procedures. |
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12/03 | Resolution 12/03 On the recording of catch and effort by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence | 1 |
Each flag CPC shall ensure that all purse seine, longline, gillnet, pole and line, handline and trolling fishing vessels flying its flag and authorized to fish species managed by IOTC be subject to a data recording system. |
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12/03 | Resolution 12/03 On the recording of catch and effort by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence | 2 |
The measure shall apply to all purse seine, longline, gillnet, pole and line, handline and trolling fishing vessels over 24 metres length overall and those under 24 metres if they fish outside the EEZs of their flag States within the IOTC area of competence. The data recording systems for developing CPCs vessels less than 24 metres operating within the EEZ of coastal States are subject to Paragraph 9. The vessels of less than 24 metres operating within the EEZ of developed CPCs shall apply this measure. |
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12/03 | Resolution 12/03 On the recording of catch and effort by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence | 3 |
All vessels shall keep a bound paper or electronic logbook to record data that includes, as a minimum requirement, the information and data in the logbook set forth in Annex I, II and III. |
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12/03 | Resolution 12/03 On the recording of catch and effort by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence | 4 |
Annex I includes information on vessel, trip and gear configuration for purse seine, longline, gillnet and pole and line, and shall only be completed once for each trip, unless the gear configuration changes during the trip. |
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12/03 | Resolution 12/03 On the recording of catch and effort by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence | 5 |
Annex II contains information for purse seine, longline, gillnet and pole and line operations and catch, which shall be completed for each set/shot/operation of the fishing gear. |
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12/03 | Resolution 12/03 On the recording of catch and effort by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence | 6 |
Annex III contains specifications for handline and trolling gears. |
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12/03 | Resolution 12/03 On the recording of catch and effort by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence | 7 |
The logbook shall be completed by the Master of the fishing vessel to the flag State administration, as well as to the coastal State administration where the vessel has fished in that coastal State's EEZ. Only the part of the logbook corresponding to the activity deployed in the coastal State EEZ shall be provided to the coastal State administration where the vessel has fished in that coastal State’s EEZ. |
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12/03 | Resolution 12/03 On the recording of catch and effort by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence | 8 |
The flag State and the States which receive this information shall provide all the data for any given year to the IOTC Secretariat by June 30th of the following year on an aggregated basis. The confidentiality rules set out in Resolution 12/02 Data Confidentiality Policy and Procedures for fine–scale data shall apply. |
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12/03 | Resolution 12/03 On the recording of catch and effort by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence | 9 |
Noting the difficulty in implementing a data recording system on fishing vessels from developing CPCs, the data recording systems for vessels less than 24 metres of developing CPCs operating inside the EEZ shall be implemented progressively by 1 July 2014. |
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12/03 | Resolution 12/03 On the recording of catch and effort by fishing vessels in the IOTC area of competence | 10 |
The Commission shall consider development of special program to facilitate implementation of this Resolution by developing CPCs. Furthermore, developed and developing CPCs are encouraged to work together to identify opportunities for capacity building to assist the long-term implementation of this Resolution. |
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