Reporting obligations for sea turtles
Article 42
1. Member States shall collect and transmit to the Commission, by 30 June of each year, the information on the interactions of their vessels with sea turtles in ICCAT fisheries by gear type. The Commission shall forward that information to the ICCAT Secretariat by 31 July of each year. That information shall include: (a) catch rates, gear characteristics, times and locations, target species and disposition status (i.e. discarded dead or released alive); (b) a breakdown of interactions by sea turtle species; and (c) the nature of the hooking or entanglement (including with FADs), bait type, hook size and type, and the size of the animal. 2. Member States shall report to the Commission, as part of the annual report referred to in Article 71, on the implementation of Article 41 and on other relevant actions taken to implement, with respect to ICCAT fisheries, the Guidelines to reduce sea turtle mortality in fishing operations published in 2010 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).