Information on FADs submitted by Member States
Article 12
Member States shall submit every year to the Commission, 15 days prior to the deadline established by ICCAT for the given year, the following information, in order to make it available to the ICCAT Secretariat: (a) the number of FADs actually deployed, on a quarterly basis, by FAD type, indicating the presence or absence of a beacon/buoy or of an echo sounder associated to the FAD; (b) the number and type of beacons/buoys (e.g. radio, with echo sounder) actually deployed, on a quarterly basis; (c) the average numbers of active beacons/buoys, on a quarterly basis, that have been followed by each vessel; (d) average numbers of active FADs lost, on a quarterly basis; (e) for each support vessel, the number of days spent at sea, per 1° grid area, month and flag Member State.