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New Scope Based on This Changed
Circumstances Review
Imports covered by this order are
shipments of certain cased pencils of
any shape or dimension (except as
noted below) which are writing and/or
drawing instruments that feature cores
of graphite or other materials, encased
in wood and/or man-made materials,
whether or not decorated and whether
or not tipped (e.g., with erasers, etc.) in
any fashion, and either sharpened or
unsharpened. The pencils subject to the
order are currently classifiable under
subheading 9609.10.00 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS). Specifically
excluded from the scope of the order are
mechanical pencils, cosmetic pencils,
pens, non-cased crayons (wax), pastels,
charcoals, chalks, and pencils produced
under U.S. patent number 6,217,242,
from paper infused with scents by the
means covered in the above-referenced
patent, thereby having odors distinct
from those that may emanate from
pencils lacking the scent infusion. Also
excluded from the scope of the order are
pencils with all of the following
physical characteristics: (1) Length: 13.5
or more inches; (2) sheath diameter: not
less than one-and-one quarter inches at
any point (before sharpening); and (3)
core length: not more than 15 percent of
the length of the pencil.
In addition, pencils with all of the
following physical characteristics are
excluded from the scope of the order:
novelty jumbo pencils that are octagonal
in shape, approximately ten inches long,
one inch in diameter before sharpening,
and three-and-one eighth inches in
circumference, composed of turned
wood encasing one-and-one half inches
of sharpened lead on one end and a
rubber eraser on the other end.
Although the HTSUS subheading is
provided for convenience and customs
purposes, our written description of the
scope of the order is dispositive.
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Final Results of Review; Partial
Revocation of Antidumping Duty Order
The affirmative statement by
interested parties that they have no
objection to exclusion of pencils
meeting the specifications described
above from the order constitutes
changed circumstances sufficient to
warrant partial revocation of this order.
No party commented on the preliminary
results or claimed that the domestic
interested parties mentioned above do
not account for substantially all of the
production of the domestic like product
to which the order pertains. Therefore,
the Department is revoking, in part, the
order on pencils from the PRC with
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regard to the pencils meeting the
specifications described above, in
accordance with sections 751(b),
751(d)(1), and 782(h)(2) of the Tariff Act
of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19
CFR 351.222(g)(1).
The Department will instruct U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
liquidate, without regard to
antidumping duties, all unliquidated
entries of pencils meeting the
specifications described above. The
Department will instruct CBP to refund
with interest any estimated
antidumping duties collected with
respect to unliquidated entries of
pencils meeting the specifications
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption prior to the effective
date of this notice. In addition, the
Department will terminate the
suspension of liquidation for the
merchandise covered by this partial
revocation, effective on the date of
publication of this notice.
This notice serves as a reminder to
parties subject to administrative
protective order (APO) of their
responsibility concerning the
disposition of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.306. Timely written
notification of the return/destruction of
APO materials or conversion to judicial
protective order is hereby requested. See
19 CFR 351.305. Failure to comply with
the regulations and terms of an APO is
a sanctionable violation.
This changed circumstances
administrative review, partial
revocation of the antidumping duty
order and notice are in accordance with
sections 751(b), 751(d)(1), 777(i) and
782(h)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.216(e) and 19 CFR 351.222(g) of the
Department’s regulations.
Dated: March 9, 2006.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
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Administration
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Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Convention Act of 1984; Conservation
and Management Measures
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
AGENCY:
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Notice.
SUMMARY: NMFS issues this notice to
notify the public that the United States
has accepted conservation and
management measures pertaining to
fishing in Antarctic waters managed by
the Commission for the Conservation of
Antarctic Marine Living Resources
(Commission or CCAMLR). The
Commission adopted these measures at
its twenty-forth meeting in Hobart,
Tasmania, October 24 to November 4,
2005. The measures have been agreed
upon by the Member countries of
CCAMLR, including the United States,
in accordance with Article IX of the
Convention for the Conservation of
Antarctic Marine Living Resources (the
Convention). The conservation and
management measures accepted: restrict
overall catches, research catch and
bycatch of certain species of fish, krill
and crab; limit participation in several
exploratory fisheries; restrict fishing in
certain areas and to certain gear types;
set fishing seasons; clarify seabird
mitigation measures; clarify Member
data reporting timelines and vessel
monitoring reporting; adopt definitions
for use in operating the Catch
Documentation Scheme (CDS). The
Commission adopted a list of vessels
suspected to be engaged in illegal,
unregulated or unreported fishing (IUU
vessel list) in the Convention Area. The
Commission also adopted a resolution
urging Member participation in a nonContracting Party Cooperation
Enhancement Program.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the CCAMLR
conservation and management measures
may be obtained from the Assistant
Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA,
National Marine Fisheries Service, 1315
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD
20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robin Tuttle, 301–713–2282.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The full text of the conservation and
management measures agreed to by
consensus by CCAMLR at its 2005
meeting and published by the U.S.
Department of State in a formal notice
in the Federal Register on January 26,
2006 (71 FR 4406).
Public comments were invited on the
notice, but no public comments were
received. Through this action, NMFS
notifies the public that the United States
has accepted the measures adopted at
CCAMLR’s twenty-fourth meeting.
NMFS provides the following summary
of these conservation and management
measures as a courtesy.
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Prohibitions on Directed Fishing
The Commission renewed the
prohibition on directed fishing for
Dissostichus species except in
accordance with specific conservation
measures. Accordingly, directed fishing
for Dissostichus species in Subarea 48.5
was prohibited in the 2005/2006 season.
Bycatch
The Commission agreed to apply the
existing bycatch limits in Division
58.5.2 in the 2005/2006 season. The
Commission also agreed to apply the
existing bycatch limits for exploratory
fisheries in the 2005/2006 season, taking
account of the revised catch limit for
Dissostichus species in Subareas 88.1
and 88.2 and the consequential change
to the bycatch limits in those subareas.
The Commission agreed to include
sleeper shark (Somniosus species) on
the list of selected species for which its
existing move-on rule apples when 2
tons or more are caught in any one haul.
In addition, the Commission agreed to a
new move-on rule in exploratory
fisheries designed to encourage
Members and their vessels to further
improve the selectivity of fishing gear
and fishing methods. The new move-on
rule requires vessels to monitor the
bycatch of Macrourus species relative to
that of Dissostichus species at ten-day
intervals.
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Environmental Protection
The Commission agreed to extend the
environmental protection provisions
implemented in the fisheries in
Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 to fisheries in
Subarea 48.6, south of 60° S, Division
58.4.2 and Division 58.4.1, south of 60°
S. The provisions regulate the disposal
of plastic packaging bands, the dumping
or discharge of oil, garbage, food wastes,
poultry, sewage, offal or incineration
ash, and the translocation of poultry.
Seabird Mitigation Measures
The Commission amended the
conservation measure requiring longline
sink rate testing prior to entering the
Convention Area for vessels choosing to
fish longlines during daylight hours. As
amended, the conservation measure
now requires a vessel to test a
minimum, rather than a maximum,
length of longline. The Commission also
amended the measure to allow
Commission-endorsed experimental
trials to test the bottom-line system.
The Commission revised its
conservation measure on the
minimization of the mortality of
seabirds in the course of longline fishing
so as to allow fishers to test variations
on the design of mitigation measures for
longlines.
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Exploratory Fishing
The Commission revised the
notification procedure for exploratory
fisheries to clarify that information on
the license issued to a vessel requesting
participation in an exploratory fishery
must be included at the time the
notification is submitted by the Flag
State to the Secretariat.
Icefish
The Commission adopted area
specific conservation measures for
Champsocephalus gunnari for the 2005/
2006 season.
The Commission set the overall catch
limit for the C. gunnari trawl fishery in
Subarea 48.3 for the 2005/2006 season
at 2,244 tons, limited the catch of this
total to 561 tons during the spawning
period (March 1, 2005 through May 31,
2006) and continued previously adopted
restrictions on the fishery. Any catch
taken between October 1, 2005 and
November 14, 2005 will be counted
against the total catch limit for the 2005/
2006 season.
The Commission set the catch limit
for C. gunnari trawl fishery within
defined areas of Division 58.5.2 for the
2005/2006 season at 1,210 tons and
continued previously adopted
restrictions on and reporting
requirements for the fishery.
Crab
The Commission set the total
allowable catch level for the pot fishery
for crab for the 2005/2006 fishing season
at 1,600 tons and continued to limit
participation to one vessel per member
country conducted as an experimental
harvest regime.
Squid
The Commission set the total
allowable catch limit for the exploratory
jig fishery for Martialia hyadesi for the
2005/2006 fishing season at 2,500 tons.
Krill
The Commission carried forward the
precautionary catch limits for krill in
Statistical Area 48 at 4.0 million tons
overall and, as divided by subareas, at
1.008 million tons in Subarea 48.1,
1.104 million tons in Subarea 48.2,
1.056 million tons in Subarea 48.3, and
0.832 million tons in Subarea 48.4.
Dissostichus Species
The Commission removed the
requirement to carry out specific
research sets in the exploratory fisheries
in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2. In its place,
the Commission agreed that there be a
requirement that all fish of each
Dissostichus species in a haul (up to a
maximum of 35 fish) be measured and
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randomly sampled for biological studies
from all lines hauled in Subareas 88.1
and 88.2.
The Commission set a combined catch
limit of 3,556 tons for the longline and
pot fisheries for D. eleginoides in the
Shag Rocks and South Georgia areas of
Subarea 48.3 in the 2005/2006 season.
The Commission closed the West Shag
Rocks area and set bycatch limits on
other species.
The Commission established a markrecapture program for the 2005/06,
2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons to assess
the population of toothfish in Subarea
48.4 and revised the limit on the catch
of Dissostichus eleginoides to 100 tons
per season, revised the fishing season to
April 1 through September 30, and
required each vessel operating in the
fishery to undertake a tagging program
in accordance with a CCAMLR Tagging
Protocol.
The Commission set a combined catch
limit of 2,584 tons of D. eleginoides in
Division 58.5.2 west of 79°20′ E from
December 1, 2005, to November 30,
2006, for trawl and pot fishing and from
May 1, 2006, to August 31, 2006, for
longline fishing. The Commission
extended the season to September 30 for
vessels which complete longline sink
rate testing using CCAMLR testing
protocols.
The Commission designated several
Dissostichus fisheries as exploratory
fisheries for the 2005/2006 fishing
season. These fisheries are total
allowable catch fisheries and are open
only to the flagged vessels of countries
that notified CCAMLR of an interest by
named vessels to participate in the
fisheries.
The exploratory fisheries for
Dissostichus species authorized by the
Commission for the 2005/2006 fishing
season include the following: (1)
Longline fishing in Statistical Division
58.4.1 by Australia (one vessel), Chile
(two vessels), Republic of Korea (two
vessels), New Zealand (three vessels),
Spain (two vessels) and Ukraine (one
vessel); (2) longline fishing in Statistical
Subarea 48.6 by one vessel per country
at any one time by Japan and New
Zealand; (3) longline fishing in
Statistical Division 58.4.2 by Australia
(one vessel), Chile (two vessels),
Republic of Korea (one vessel), New
Zealand (two vessels), and Spain (two
vessels); (4) longline fishing in
Statistical Division 58.4.3a (the Elan
Bank) outside areas under national
jurisdiction to no more than one vessel
per country at a time by Australia,
Chile, Republic of Korea and Spain; (5)
longline fishing in Statistical Division
58.4.3b (the BANZARE Bank) outside
areas of national jurisdiction to no more
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than one vessel per country at a time by
Australia, Chile, Republic of Korea,
Spain and Uruguay; (6) longline fishing
in Statistical Subarea 88.1 by Argentina
(two vessels), Republic of Korea (two
vessels), New Zealand (five vessels),
Norway (one vessel), Russia (two
vessels), South Africa (one vessel),
Spain (three vessels), United Kingdom
(two vessels), and Uruguay (three
vessels); and (7) longline fishing in
Statistical Subarea 88.2 by Argentina
(two vessels), Republic of Korea (one
vessel), New Zealand (five vessels),
Norway (one vessel), Russia (two
vessels), Spain (three vessels), United
Kingdom (two vessels), and Uruguay
(one vessel).
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Research Catch
The Commission agreed that catches
for research purposes will be considered
a part of any catch limits in force for
each species taken unless the catch limit
in an area is set at zero. In the event of
research being undertaken in an area
with a zero catch limit, the catches will
be considered to be the catch limit for
the season in that area unless the zero
catch limit area is part of a group of
areas for which an overall catch limit is
set. In this latter case, the research
catches will be considered as part of the
overall catch limit for that group of
areas.
Member Data Reporting
The Commission revised the five-day
catch and effort reporting system to
clarify that reports from Members are
due to the CCAMLR Secretariat within
48 hours of the close of each five-day
reporting period and must include data
on the number of pots used in pot
fisheries.
The Commission agreed that haul-byhaul data should be submitted annually
by Members for all krill fisheries. The
Commission also agreed that monthly
catch reports should be compiled at the
spatial scale relevant to the management
of catch limits specified in the
conservation measures setting krill
catch limits.
The Commission revised the
conservation measures on port
inspections of vessels carrying
Dissostichus species to require that
Members submit reports of port
inspections on each occasion that a
vessel unloads Dissostichus species in
their territories.
The Commission revised the
conservation measure on automated
satellite-linked vessel monitoring
systems to reinstate a requirement that
Flag States notify the CCAMLR
Secretariat as soon as possible of the
movement between subareas and
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divisions of the Convention Area by
each of its fishing vessels. The
Commission encouraged Flag States to
submit all VMS reports to the
Secretariat by means of direct reporting
by vessels to the CCAMLR Secretariat
via VMS land stations.
Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported
Vessel List
The Commission consolidated the
lists of vessels suspected of illegal,
unregulated or unreported (IUU) fishing
or trading (the IUU vessel list) into a
combined List of Contracting Party
Vessels and non-Contracting Party
Vessels. The vessels on the consolidated
list are: VIARSA I (Uruguay), MAYA V
(Uruguay), AMORINN (Togo), APACHE
I (Honduras), CONDOR (Togo), EOLO
(Equatorial Guinea), GOLDEN SUN
(Equatorial Guinea), HAMMER (Togo),
JIAN YUAN(Georgia), KANG YUAN
(Georgia), KETA (flag unknown),
SOUTH OCEAN (China), RED LION 22
(Equatorial Guinea), SARGO (Togo),
SEA STORM (Equatorial Guinea),
SOUTH BOY (Equatorial Guinea), ROSS
(Togo) and TARUMAN (Cambodia). A
vessel on the IUU Vessel List will not
be permitted to participate in
exploratory fisheries. CCAMLR
members are urged to prohibit trade
with the vessels on the CCAMLR IUU
Vessel List.
Vessel Monitoring
The Commission reinstated a section
in the 2002 version of the conservation
measure for an Automated Satellitelinked Vessel Monitoring System
requiring notification of each movement
of a vessel between subareas and
division. The Commission encouraged
Flag States to submit all VMS reports to
the CCAMLR Secretariat by means of
direct reporting by vessels to the
Secretariat via VMS land stations.
Catch Documentation Scheme
The Commission adopted clarifying
definitions of export, import, landing,
port state and transshipment for
purposes of administering the CDS.
‘‘Export’’ is defined as any movement of
a catch in its harvested or processed
form from the territory under the control
of the State or free trade zone of landing,
or, where that State or free trade zone
forms part of a customs union, any other
member State of that customs union.
‘‘Import’’ is defined as the physical
entering or bringing of a catch into any
part of the geographical territory under
the control of a State, except where the
catch is landed or transshipped within
the definitions of ‘‘landing’’ or
‘‘transshipment.’’ ‘‘Landing’’ is defined
as the initial transfer of catch in its
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harvested or processed form from a
vessel to dockside or to another vessel
in a port or free trade zone where the
catch is certified by an authority of the
Port State as landed. ‘‘Port State’’ is
defined as the State that has control
over a particular port area or free trade
zone for the purposes of landing,
transshipment, importing, exporting and
re-exporting and whose authority serves
as the authority for landing or
transshipment certification. ‘‘Re-export’’
is defined as any movement of a catch
in its harvested or processed form from
territory under the control of a State,
free trade zone, or Member State of a
customs union of import unless that
State, free trade zone, or any member
State of that customs union of import is
the first place of import, in which case
the movement is an export within the
definition of export. ‘‘Transshipment’’ is
defined as the transfer of a catch in its
harvested or processed form from a
vessel to another vessel or means of
transport, and where such transfer takes
place within the territory under the
control of a Port State, for the purpose
of effecting its removal from that State.
For the avoidance of doubt, temporarily
placing a catch on land or on an
artificial structure to facilitate such
transfer shall not prevent the transfer
from being a transshipment where the
catch is not within the definition of
landing.
The Commission added a provision to
the text of the CDS conservation
measure and to the data fields of the
Dissostichus Catch Document (DCD)
and the Re-Export form requiring the
reporting of transport details of
toothfish shipments.
Non-Contracting Party Cooperation
Enhancement Program
The Commission adopted a resolution
on a non-Contracting Party Cooperation
Enhancement Program. The resolutions
urges Members to provide information,
training materials and technical
assistance to non-Contracting Flag and
Port States with an interest in
controlling toothfish harvesting and
trade, but which lack the expertise and
resources to do so.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 2431 et seq.
Dated: March 9, 2006.
William T. Hogarth,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 010606B]
Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention Act of 1984;
Conservation and Management Measures
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: NMFS issues this notice to notify the public that the United
States has accepted conservation and management measures pertaining to
fishing in Antarctic waters managed by the Commission for the
Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (Commission or
CCAMLR). The Commission adopted these measures at its twenty-forth
meeting in Hobart, Tasmania, October 24 to November 4, 2005. The
measures have been agreed upon by the Member countries of CCAMLR,
including the United States, in accordance with Article IX of the
Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
(the Convention). The conservation and management measures accepted:
restrict overall catches, research catch and bycatch of certain species
of fish, krill and crab; limit participation in several exploratory
fisheries; restrict fishing in certain areas and to certain gear types;
set fishing seasons; clarify seabird mitigation measures; clarify
Member data reporting timelines and vessel monitoring reporting; adopt
definitions for use in operating the Catch Documentation Scheme (CDS).
The Commission adopted a list of vessels suspected to be engaged in
illegal, unregulated or unreported fishing (IUU vessel list) in the
Convention Area. The Commission also adopted a resolution urging Member
participation in a non-Contracting Party Cooperation Enhancement
Program.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the CCAMLR conservation and management measures
may be obtained from the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA,
National Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver
Spring, MD 20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robin Tuttle, 301-713-2282.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The full text of the conservation and management measures agreed to
by consensus by CCAMLR at its 2005 meeting and published by the U.S.
Department of State in a formal notice in the Federal Register on
January 26, 2006 (71 FR 4406).
Public comments were invited on the notice, but no public comments
were received. Through this action, NMFS notifies the public that the
United States has accepted the measures adopted at CCAMLR's twenty-
fourth meeting. NMFS provides the following summary of these
conservation and management measures as a courtesy.
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Prohibitions on Directed Fishing
The Commission renewed the prohibition on directed fishing for
Dissostichus species except in accordance with specific conservation
measures. Accordingly, directed fishing for Dissostichus species in
Subarea 48.5 was prohibited in the 2005/2006 season.
Bycatch
The Commission agreed to apply the existing bycatch limits in
Division 58.5.2 in the 2005/2006 season. The Commission also agreed to
apply the existing bycatch limits for exploratory fisheries in the
2005/2006 season, taking account of the revised catch limit for
Dissostichus species in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 and the consequential
change to the bycatch limits in those subareas.
The Commission agreed to include sleeper shark (Somniosus species)
on the list of selected species for which its existing move-on rule
apples when 2 tons or more are caught in any one haul. In addition, the
Commission agreed to a new move-on rule in exploratory fisheries
designed to encourage Members and their vessels to further improve the
selectivity of fishing gear and fishing methods. The new move-on rule
requires vessels to monitor the bycatch of Macrourus species relative
to that of Dissostichus species at ten-day intervals.
Environmental Protection
The Commission agreed to extend the environmental protection
provisions implemented in the fisheries in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 to
fisheries in Subarea 48.6, south of 60[deg] S, Division 58.4.2 and
Division 58.4.1, south of 60[deg] S. The provisions regulate the
disposal of plastic packaging bands, the dumping or discharge of oil,
garbage, food wastes, poultry, sewage, offal or incineration ash, and
the translocation of poultry.
Seabird Mitigation Measures
The Commission amended the conservation measure requiring longline
sink rate testing prior to entering the Convention Area for vessels
choosing to fish longlines during daylight hours. As amended, the
conservation measure now requires a vessel to test a minimum, rather
than a maximum, length of longline. The Commission also amended the
measure to allow Commission-endorsed experimental trials to test the
bottom-line system.
The Commission revised its conservation measure on the minimization
of the mortality of seabirds in the course of longline fishing so as to
allow fishers to test variations on the design of mitigation measures
for longlines.
Exploratory Fishing
The Commission revised the notification procedure for exploratory
fisheries to clarify that information on the license issued to a vessel
requesting participation in an exploratory fishery must be included at
the time the notification is submitted by the Flag State to the
Secretariat.
Icefish
The Commission adopted area specific conservation measures for
Champsocephalus gunnari for the 2005/2006 season.
The Commission set the overall catch limit for the C. gunnari trawl
fishery in Subarea 48.3 for the 2005/2006 season at 2,244 tons, limited
the catch of this total to 561 tons during the spawning period (March
1, 2005 through May 31, 2006) and continued previously adopted
restrictions on the fishery. Any catch taken between October 1, 2005
and November 14, 2005 will be counted against the total catch limit for
the 2005/2006 season.
The Commission set the catch limit for C. gunnari trawl fishery
within defined areas of Division 58.5.2 for the 2005/2006 season at
1,210 tons and continued previously adopted restrictions on and
reporting requirements for the fishery.
Crab
The Commission set the total allowable catch level for the pot
fishery for crab for the 2005/2006 fishing season at 1,600 tons and
continued to limit participation to one vessel per member country
conducted as an experimental harvest regime.
Squid
The Commission set the total allowable catch limit for the
exploratory jig fishery for Martialia hyadesi for the 2005/2006 fishing
season at 2,500 tons.
Krill
The Commission carried forward the precautionary catch limits for
krill in Statistical Area 48 at 4.0 million tons overall and, as
divided by subareas, at 1.008 million tons in Subarea 48.1, 1.104
million tons in Subarea 48.2, 1.056 million tons in Subarea 48.3, and
0.832 million tons in Subarea 48.4.
Dissostichus Species
The Commission removed the requirement to carry out specific
research sets in the exploratory fisheries in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2.
In its place, the Commission agreed that there be a requirement that
all fish of each Dissostichus species in a haul (up to a maximum of 35
fish) be measured and randomly sampled for biological studies from all
lines hauled in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2.
The Commission set a combined catch limit of 3,556 tons for the
longline and pot fisheries for D. eleginoides in the Shag Rocks and
South Georgia areas of Subarea 48.3 in the 2005/2006 season. The
Commission closed the West Shag Rocks area and set bycatch limits on
other species.
The Commission established a mark-recapture program for the 2005/
06, 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons to assess the population of toothfish
in Subarea 48.4 and revised the limit on the catch of Dissostichus
eleginoides to 100 tons per season, revised the fishing season to April
1 through September 30, and required each vessel operating in the
fishery to undertake a tagging program in accordance with a CCAMLR
Tagging Protocol.
The Commission set a combined catch limit of 2,584 tons of D.
eleginoides in Division 58.5.2 west of 79[deg]20' E from December 1,
2005, to November 30, 2006, for trawl and pot fishing and from May 1,
2006, to August 31, 2006, for longline fishing. The Commission extended
the season to September 30 for vessels which complete longline sink
rate testing using CCAMLR testing protocols.
The Commission designated several Dissostichus fisheries as
exploratory fisheries for the 2005/2006 fishing season. These fisheries
are total allowable catch fisheries and are open only to the flagged
vessels of countries that notified CCAMLR of an interest by named
vessels to participate in the fisheries.
The exploratory fisheries for Dissostichus species authorized by
the Commission for the 2005/2006 fishing season include the following:
(1) Longline fishing in Statistical Division 58.4.1 by Australia (one
vessel), Chile (two vessels), Republic of Korea (two vessels), New
Zealand (three vessels), Spain (two vessels) and Ukraine (one vessel);
(2) longline fishing in Statistical Subarea 48.6 by one vessel per
country at any one time by Japan and New Zealand; (3) longline fishing
in Statistical Division 58.4.2 by Australia (one vessel), Chile (two
vessels), Republic of Korea (one vessel), New Zealand (two vessels),
and Spain (two vessels); (4) longline fishing in Statistical Division
58.4.3a (the Elan Bank) outside areas under national jurisdiction to no
more than one vessel per country at a time by Australia, Chile,
Republic of Korea and Spain; (5) longline fishing in Statistical
Division 58.4.3b (the BANZARE Bank) outside areas of national
jurisdiction to no more
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than one vessel per country at a time by Australia, Chile, Republic of
Korea, Spain and Uruguay; (6) longline fishing in Statistical Subarea
88.1 by Argentina (two vessels), Republic of Korea (two vessels), New
Zealand (five vessels), Norway (one vessel), Russia (two vessels),
South Africa (one vessel), Spain (three vessels), United Kingdom (two
vessels), and Uruguay (three vessels); and (7) longline fishing in
Statistical Subarea 88.2 by Argentina (two vessels), Republic of Korea
(one vessel), New Zealand (five vessels), Norway (one vessel), Russia
(two vessels), Spain (three vessels), United Kingdom (two vessels), and
Uruguay (one vessel).
Research Catch
The Commission agreed that catches for research purposes will be
considered a part of any catch limits in force for each species taken
unless the catch limit in an area is set at zero. In the event of
research being undertaken in an area with a zero catch limit, the
catches will be considered to be the catch limit for the season in that
area unless the zero catch limit area is part of a group of areas for
which an overall catch limit is set. In this latter case, the research
catches will be considered as part of the overall catch limit for that
group of areas.
Member Data Reporting
The Commission revised the five-day catch and effort reporting
system to clarify that reports from Members are due to the CCAMLR
Secretariat within 48 hours of the close of each five-day reporting
period and must include data on the number of pots used in pot
fisheries.
The Commission agreed that haul-by-haul data should be submitted
annually by Members for all krill fisheries. The Commission also agreed
that monthly catch reports should be compiled at the spatial scale
relevant to the management of catch limits specified in the
conservation measures setting krill catch limits.
The Commission revised the conservation measures on port
inspections of vessels carrying Dissostichus species to require that
Members submit reports of port inspections on each occasion that a
vessel unloads Dissostichus species in their territories.
The Commission revised the conservation measure on automated
satellite-linked vessel monitoring systems to reinstate a requirement
that Flag States notify the CCAMLR Secretariat as soon as possible of
the movement between subareas and divisions of the Convention Area by
each of its fishing vessels. The Commission encouraged Flag States to
submit all VMS reports to the Secretariat by means of direct reporting
by vessels to the CCAMLR Secretariat via VMS land stations.
Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Vessel List
The Commission consolidated the lists of vessels suspected of
illegal, unregulated or unreported (IUU) fishing or trading (the IUU
vessel list) into a combined List of Contracting Party Vessels and non-
Contracting Party Vessels. The vessels on the consolidated list are:
VIARSA I (Uruguay), MAYA V (Uruguay), AMORINN (Togo), APACHE I
(Honduras), CONDOR (Togo), EOLO (Equatorial Guinea), GOLDEN SUN
(Equatorial Guinea), HAMMER (Togo), JIAN YUAN(Georgia), KANG YUAN
(Georgia), KETA (flag unknown), SOUTH OCEAN (China), RED LION 22
(Equatorial Guinea), SARGO (Togo), SEA STORM (Equatorial Guinea), SOUTH
BOY (Equatorial Guinea), ROSS (Togo) and TARUMAN (Cambodia). A vessel
on the IUU Vessel List will not be permitted to participate in
exploratory fisheries. CCAMLR members are urged to prohibit trade with
the vessels on the CCAMLR IUU Vessel List.
Vessel Monitoring
The Commission reinstated a section in the 2002 version of the
conservation measure for an Automated Satellite-linked Vessel
Monitoring System requiring notification of each movement of a vessel
between subareas and division. The Commission encouraged Flag States to
submit all VMS reports to the CCAMLR Secretariat by means of direct
reporting by vessels to the Secretariat via VMS land stations.
Catch Documentation Scheme
The Commission adopted clarifying definitions of export, import,
landing, port state and transshipment for purposes of administering the
CDS. ``Export'' is defined as any movement of a catch in its harvested
or processed form from the territory under the control of the State or
free trade zone of landing, or, where that State or free trade zone
forms part of a customs union, any other member State of that customs
union. ``Import'' is defined as the physical entering or bringing of a
catch into any part of the geographical territory under the control of
a State, except where the catch is landed or transshipped within the
definitions of ``landing'' or ``transshipment.'' ``Landing'' is defined
as the initial transfer of catch in its harvested or processed form
from a vessel to dockside or to another vessel in a port or free trade
zone where the catch is certified by an authority of the Port State as
landed. ``Port State'' is defined as the State that has control over a
particular port area or free trade zone for the purposes of landing,
transshipment, importing, exporting and re-exporting and whose
authority serves as the authority for landing or transshipment
certification. ``Re-export'' is defined as any movement of a catch in
its harvested or processed form from territory under the control of a
State, free trade zone, or Member State of a customs union of import
unless that State, free trade zone, or any member State of that customs
union of import is the first place of import, in which case the
movement is an export within the definition of export.
``Transshipment'' is defined as the transfer of a catch in its
harvested or processed form from a vessel to another vessel or means of
transport, and where such transfer takes place within the territory
under the control of a Port State, for the purpose of effecting its
removal from that State. For the avoidance of doubt, temporarily
placing a catch on land or on an artificial structure to facilitate
such transfer shall not prevent the transfer from being a transshipment
where the catch is not within the definition of landing.
The Commission added a provision to the text of the CDS
conservation measure and to the data fields of the Dissostichus Catch
Document (DCD) and the Re-Export form requiring the reporting of
transport details of toothfish shipments.
Non-Contracting Party Cooperation Enhancement Program
The Commission adopted a resolution on a non-Contracting Party
Cooperation Enhancement Program. The resolutions urges Members to
provide information, training materials and technical assistance to
non-Contracting Flag and Port States with an interest in controlling
toothfish harvesting and trade, but which lack the expertise and
resources to do so.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 2431 et seq.
Dated: March 9, 2006.
William T. Hogarth,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. E6-3750 Filed 3-14-06; 8:45 am]
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