E - Iccat

CPC
Potential issues of
non-compliance-
2011
2011
Response / explanation
by CPC
Actions Taken
Potential issues of noncompliance-2012
2012
Response /
explanation by CPC
Actions Taken
MAURITANIA
Annual Reports/
Statistics: No
annual report
received. No Task I
or Task II data
received.
Conservation and
Management
Measures: No
information.
Quotas and catch
limits: No
Compliance tables
received (only small
tunas taken by
national fleet).
Other issues: None
recorded.
Mauritania does not have
a tuna fishing fleet but
only access arrangements
to its waters with the EU,
Senegal and Japan.
These CPCs declare
catches under their
quotas. No other catches
are made. Some tuna bycatches
are taken by
pelagic industrial
fisheries.
Letter of concern on
continued lack of
compliance with
reporting
obligations. In 2012,
no reply received to
letter of concern.
Annual Reports/
Statistics: No Task I or
Task II data received.
Conservation and
Management Measures:
No information.
Quotas and catch limits:
No Compliance tables
received (only small
tunas taken by national
fleet).
No national fisheries
so no data to
report.All access
agreements stipulate
that data must be
sent to ICCAT by
the flag State.
Other issues: No Will send
information on access information and
agreements received. copies of contracts
Possible concerns of as soon as possible.
illegal tuna transhipments
in the EEZ of Mauritania.
Letter of concern
requesting
information on
access agreements
and information on
possible
transhipment of bycatches
of ICCAT
species.