E - Iccat

CPC
Potential issues of
non-compliance-2011
2011
Response / explanation by
CPC
Actions Taken
Potential issues of
non-compliance-2012
2012
Response /
explanation by CPC
Actions Taken
GHANA
Annual Reports/
Statistics: Task I
fleet characteristics
not submitted.
Conservation and
Management
Measures: Internal
actions (20m+) report
received.
Ghana made important efforts
in improving data collection
and data reporting. An MoU
was signed with Côte d'Ivoire
so to account for catches
landed by Ghanaian vessels in
Abidjan port.
Task I fleet characteristics
were submitted on time.
No LSTLV in Ghana (as
already mentioned last year).
Lift identification and
send letter of concern
requiring implementation
of effective measures to
prohibit at-sea
transhipments. Call for
compliance with fleet
capacity provisions with
BET measures.
Implement the payback
plan on overharvest of
BET.
Acknowledge the
tangible efforts and
concrete improvements
but ask for equivalent
efforts for the future. In
2012, reply to letter of
identification received.
Annual Reports/
Statistics:
Conservation and
Management
Measures: Rec. 11-
01: BET/YFT vessels
list received late.
Letter of concern
recognising efforts
made, acknowledging
payback plan and
requesting Ghana to
continue in its effort
and implementation of
catch management
plan and data
reporting.
Quotas and catch
limits: Overharvest of
S. SWO and BET
(Task I data).
Compliance Tables
received late.
Other issues:
The overharvest of S. SWO is
due to small artisanal coastal
fisheries. Ghana presented a
payback plan for the BET
overharvest and not further
overharvest has occurred since
2010.
Need of a
Recommendation to
endorse repayment
plan, including a fleet
capacity reduction
plan.
Quotas and catch
limits:
Other issues: At-sea
transhipment issued
raised in 2011
Payback plan and
capacity reduction
plan for bigeye tuna
has been submitted
New VMS system in
place and
transhipment at sea
prohibited and
specified on fishing
licences. Traceability
systems in place in the
canneries.