Drifting FADs
Article 38
1. A purse seine fishing vessel shall have no more than the number of FADs set out in the table below active at any time in the IATTC Convention area. A FAD shall be considered active when it is deployed at sea, starts transmitting its location and is being tracked by the fishing vessel, its owner or operator. A FAD shall be activated only on board a purse seine vessel. Fishing vessels with a capacity below 1 200 m 3 210 FADs Fishing vessels with a capacity equal to or greater than 1 200 m 3 340 FADs 2. During the 15 days before the start of the closure period selected in accordance with Article 37(1), point (a), of this Regulation a purse seine fishing vessel shall, in the IATTC Convention area: (a) refrain from deploying FADs; and (b) recover the same number of FADs as initially deployed.