Regional Market Measures

9. In order to minimise unreported and illegal catches, countries should collaborate to implement regional market measures to identify and to track fish catches at all points in the marketing chain in a consistent way with existing international trade laws.
9.1 As a priority, countries in the region should standardise catch and landing documentation throughout the region and implement catch documentation or trade certification schemes for high value product.
9.2 In addition, countries should work with organisations such as INFOFISH to produce regular and timely market reports allowing trade flows to be analysed.
9.3 Countries should check trade discrepancies regarding export of fish and fish product and take appropriate action and, as a minimum, report these discrepancies to the flag State.