Regulations for Fishing Vessels Conducting Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Article 33

Landing or transshipments of southern bluefin tuna in foreign ports shall be limited to port Cape Town of South Africa, port Louis of Mauritius, port Suva of Fiji, or port Majuro of the Marshall Islands.Any distant water fisheries operator intending to land or transship southern bluefin tuna in the ports as referred to in the preceding paragraph shall, at least seven working days before the estimated date of port entry, notify the competent authority through the Tuna Association, and shall, upon port entry, accept port inspections conducted by personnel dispatched by the competent authority or independent third party for verification of the catch landed or transshipped.Where southern bluefin tuna catch is sold directly to Japan through at-sea transshipment, the concerned distant water fisheries operator shall, at least seven working days before the estimated date of such catch arriving in Japan, notify the competent authority of the estimated date of arrival, and shall accept port inspections conducted by the independent third party for verification of the catch landed.The fees incurred from any catch inspection conducted by the independent third party at foreign ports shall be borne by the distant water fisheries operators of the fishing vessels being inspected.