MAURITIUS National Report to the Scientific Committee of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, 2020 - Ministry of Blue Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries and Shipping - Mauritius - INFORMATION ON FISHERIES, RESEARCH AND STATISTICS

The purse seiners operated mostly outside the EEZ of Mauritius namely on the high seas and in the EEZ of Seychelles. [...] The tables below 2a, 2b and 2c show the annual catch and effort of the Mauritius flagged longliners fishing outside the EEZ (Table 2a) and inside the EEZ (Table 2b) and of the Mauritius flagged purse seiners (Table 2c) in the IOTC are of competence. [...] Table 3 shows the total number and weight of sharks, by IOTC–2020–SC23–NR14 Page 14 of 23 species, retained by the national fleet in the IOTC area of competence from 2013 to 2019 while the total number of sharks, by species, released/discarded by the national fleet in the IOTC area of competence (2014– 2019) are shown in table 4. [...] Other measures taken by Mauritius related to the conservation of marine turtles have been included in the ‘Reporting of progress of implementation of the FAO Guideline to Reduce Sea Turtle Mortality in Fishing Operation and on the implementation of resolution 12/04 on marine turtles’ already submitted to the Secretariat on the 1 April 2020. [...] 18/07 On measures applicable in case of non- fulfilment of reporting obligations in the IOTC Paragraphs 1, 4 The Implementation Report was submitted to the Secretariat on 01/04/20 and includes all measures taken for the reporting obligations regarding the mentioned resolutions in the different sections of the report.