Decisions 15.30 to 15.32 - Fish Aggregating Devices
Aquatic Species Conservation Issues
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Decision directed to: Parties
Decision directed to: Scientific Council
Decision directed to: Secretariat
15.30
Parties are encouraged to apply the recommendations contained in Annex 1 of UNEP/CMS/COP15/Doc.25.1.3.
15.31
The Scientific Council is requested to:
a) utilize, in related work, the summary and recommendations of the report, Relationship between Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) and Marine Debris in the Mediterranean Sea, contained in Annex 1 of UNEP/CMS/COP15/Doc.25.1.3;
b) continue to monitor FADs as a source of plastic pollution, under the marine pollution work stream of the Scientific Council.
15.32
The Secretariat shall, in collaboration with the IWC, compile information from the relevant RFMOs, when applicable, on management and implementation of measures to regulate the use of FADs such as limiting how many are deployed, improving their design to be less harmful, tracking their movements and testing new FAD designs.