Strombus gigas [Haiti]

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Imported Data from Old System-OLDDB

Meeting	Currrent Concern: Not Classified
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Comments

Comment	Date Added	Access	User
Trade suspension since 29 September 2003. At AC19, HT was included in “countries of Category (i)” – species of urgent concern (see AC19 summary record), which were given the following recommendations: The Management Authority should: Within six months a) Establish a voluntary moratorium on the commercial harvest of (excluding legal harvest in territorial waters of the Parties concerned) and the international trade in S. gigas within four weeks of this recommendation being made (upon communication by the AC to the Parties); i) Identify areas to be designated for commercial fisheries; ii) Undertake density studies in these designated areas; iii) Identify and analyse trends in available landing data; iv) Establish a standardized minimum meat weight that corresponds to adult specimens of unprocessed and processed meat; v) Based on the results of the density studies, the analysis of landing trends and standardized meat weight, establish cautious catch and export quotas in consultation with the Secretariat; vi) Demonstrate that items b) and c) below have been initiated; Within 18 months b) Design and implement a fishery data collection programme. This programme is designed to collect catch and effort data and shall include: 1) a system of permits and licences for commercial harvesters and exporters; and 2) regular reporting of landing and export data; c) Design and implement a long-term population monitoring programme for the designated commercial fishing areas. This programme should provide reliable estimates of adult and juvenile densities within commercial fishing areas, at a minimum; and d) Give serious consideration to the recommendations of the June 2003 IQCI meeting and commit specifically to those recommendations on: i) development of a regional management regime, including cooperative quota setting; ii) law enforcement capacity and effectiveness; and iii) population assessments and other research relating to the management of the queen conch.	08/12/2014	Public Viewer	Elena
SC62 (2012) The recommendation to suspend trade retained.	10/04/2015	Public Viewer	Elena
SC66 (January 2016) reconfirmed trade suspension. SC66 Doc. 31.2 and SC66 ExSum 7.	10/03/2016	Public Viewer	Elena

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