Drifting FADs and supply vessels
Article 35
1. Drifting FADs shall be equipped with instrumented buoys. The use of any other buoys, such as radio buoys, shall be prohibited. 2. A purse seine fishing vessel shall follow no more than 250 operational buoys at any time. 3. No more than 400 instrumented buoys shall be acquired annually for each purse seine fishing vessel. 4. No more than three supply vessels shall operate in support of not fewer than 12 purse seine fishing vessels, all flying the flag of a Member State. This paragraph shall not apply to Member States using only one supply vessel. 5. A single purse seine fishing vessel shall not be supported by more than one supply vessel flying the flag of a Member State at any time. 6. The Union shall not register new or additional supply vessels in the IOTC record of authorised fishing vessels.