47. It was recommended that:
- Table 1 and 2 be considered as a list of basic items and procedures to
be included in harmonized catch certificate and trade documents.
- FAO should investigate the possibility of uniquely identifying fishing
vessels.
- The terms and codes used in catch certification and trade documentation
for species, fishing gear etc. should be those adopted by the CWP, and the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) codes should be used
for the country codes.
- FAO should design standard forms based on Table 1 and the forms already
in use in consultation with the users of the forms and FAO should encourage
their use by current and future schemes.
- Efforts should continue to achieve harmonization of tariff commodity codes
to adequately describe the species subject to trade documentation. Where they
exist such codes should be incorporated into the trade documents where a code
is available.
- Consideration should be given to flag States reporting all information
contained in catch certificates or trade documents to a central database used
by the responsible RFMO.
- Priority for development of new schemes should be given to fisheries that
are or may be subject to significant levels of IUU fishing.
- Where redundancy in catch certificate and trade document among schemes
occurs, RFMOs should consult with an aim to eliminating duplicative documents
and to eliminating opportunities for fraud.
- Further consideration should be given to the feasibility of developing
electronic systems for producing information for catch certificates and trade
documents.
- Until an electronic format is developed and implemented effort should be
made to limit the size of each document to one page size A4.
- Consideration should be given to assisting developing countries in meeting
the requirements of any catch certification or trade documentation scheme.
