Implementation of IPOA/IUU - International MCS Network

44of a NAFO member, it must be inspected. The port State must prohibit the vesselfrom landing or transshipping fish unless the vessel can establish that the fishwere caught outside the NAFO Regulatory Area or, for certain species only, ifthey were harvested in accordance with NAFO conservation and enforcementmeasures. The port States must report the results of such port inspections to theNAFO Secretariat, to all NAFO members and to the flag State of the vessel. 81ICCAT has adopted a number of port State measures to promotecompliance with its conservation measures, including a port inspection schemeand restrictions on landings and transshipments of catches by non-membervessels. 82 ICCAT’s Revised Port Inspection Scheme, 83 which became effective in1998, requires ICCAT members to carry out inspections of all tuna fishingvessels in their ports, including vessels of ICCAT members. In the case ofapparent violations by a vessel registered in another State, the inspectors mustdraw up a report containing standardized information and transmit the report tothe flag State and to the ICCAT Secretariat within ten days. If a vessel of the portState committed the apparent violation, the inspectors must draw up the samekind of report and transmit it to the ICCAT Secretariat in the same timeframe. Inall such cases, the flag State must investigate and, where appropriate, prosecutethose responsible, and inform the ICCAT Secretariat of actions taken in thisregard.In adopting the Revised Port Inspection Scheme, ICCAT noted that:most ICCAT recommendations can only be enforced during offloading,and therefore this is the most fundamental and effectivetool for monitoring and inspection. ... The purpose of the portinspection scheme is to ensure individual vessel compliance aswell as to facilitate overall monitoring of each party’s fisheriesfor ICCAT species. ICCAT hopes that the parties will actuallyexceed these minimum standards [set forth in the Scheme] in81 This Scheme has been put into practice. In 1999, for example, non-member vesselssighted fishing in the NAFO Regulatory Area attempted to land fish in the Faroe Islandsbut were prohibited from doing so as they could not prove that the fish were caughtoutside the NAFO Regulatory Area or in accordance with the NAFO conservation andenforcement measures.82 Certain other ICCAT measures call on its members (and those with cooperating status)to take action as port States, including Resolution 94-9 on Vessel Sighting (calling for thecollection of information on non-member tuna vessels in ports) and Resolution 96-13 onImproving Completeness of Task I Statistics (similarly calling for collection ofinformation on foreign vessels in port and transmission of such information to the ICCATSecretariat).83 ICCAT Recommendation 97-10, attached as Appendix IV to these guidelines.