TITLE IIFISHING OPPORTUNITIES FOR EU VESSELS

CHAPTER IIIFishing opportunities in waters of regional fisheries management organisations

Section 7WCPFC convention Area

Article 30aF1Closed areas for purse-seine fisheries

The fishing by purse-seine vessels for bigeye tuna and yellowfin tuna shall be prohibited in the following high seas areas:

  1. (a)

    the international waters enclosed by the boundaries of the exclusive economic zones of Indonesia, Palau, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea;

  2. (b)

    the international waters enclosed by the boundaries of the exclusive economic zones of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.