Prohibition on discards of tropical tunas caught by purse seiners
Article 43
1. All purse-seine vessels fishing in the part of the WCPFC Convention Area located between 20° N and 20° S shall retain on board, tranship and land all bigeye, yellowfin and skipjack tuna that they catch. 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply in the following cases: (a) in the final set of a trip, if the vessel has insufficient remaining well space to accommodate all fish; (b) where the fish is unfit for human consumption for reasons other than size; (c) in the event of a serious malfunction of freezer equipment.