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4. For research and reporting purposes, each CCM with longline vessels that fish in the Convention Area south of 30°S or north of 23°N shall submit to the Commission in part 2 of its annual report annually information describing which of the mitigation measures they require their vessels to use, as well as the technical specifications for each of those mitigation measures. Each such CCM shall also include in its annual reports for subsequent years any changes it has made to its required mitigation measures or technical specifications for those measures.
1. CCMs shall require their longline vessels fishing south of 30oS, to use at least two of these three measures: weighted branch lines, night setting and tori lines. Table 1 does not apply south of 30o South. See Annex 1 for specifications of these measures.
2. CCMs shall require their longline vessels of 24 meters or more in overall length fishing north of 23oN, to use at least two of the mitigation measures in Table 1, including at least one from Column A. CCMs also shall require their small-scale longline vessels less than 24 meters in overall length fishing north of 23 N, to use at least one of the mitigation measures from Column A in Table 1. See Annex 1 for specifications of these measures.