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3.4 Skipper Best Practices

Initially Adopted

  • June 7, 2011
This measure also applies to the PVR

ISSF’s goal in developing and presenting best practice information is to share the state of the art in responsible fishing operations, review the reporting requirements and other obligations to RFMOs, and inform purse seine and longline vessel skippers and other interested parties about the related ISSF Conservation Measures for the management of tuna and its larger marine ecosystem.

Processors, traders, importers, transporters, marketers and others involved in the seafood industry shall conduct transactions only with those purse seine and longline vessels whose skippers:

(a) have attended an in-person and/or online ISSF Skippers Workshop; or
(b) have attended an in-person Skippers Workshop conducted by a trainer that has been accredited by ISSF to conduct these workshops; or
(c) have viewed an ISSF Skippers Workshop video online; or
(d) have reviewed the online Skippers Guidebook.

All of the above provide information on best practices for purse seine and longline fishery management.

RELATED CONSERVATION MEASURES

3.1 Sharks

3.1(a) Shark-Finning Policy

3.1(b) Prohibition of Transactions with Shark-Finning Vessels

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3.1(c) Prohibition of Transactions with Companies without a Public Policy Prohibiting Shark Finning

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3.2 Large-Scale Pelagic Driftnets Prohibition

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3.3 Full Retention of Tunas

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3.5 Transactions with Vessels that Use Only Non-entangling FADs

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3.6 Transactions with Vessels Implementing Best Practices for Sharks, Sea Turtles and Seabirds

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3.7 Transactions with Vessels or Companies with Vessel-Based FAD Management Policies

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