General Conditions for Foreign Fishing Vessels... (1) Published Extraordinary Gazette No. 5 of 2003

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GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR FOREIGN FISHING VESSELS
AND
LOCALLY BASED FOREIGN FISHING VESSELS (1)

The general conditions specified in this notice apply to foreign fishing vessels and locally based foreign fishing vessels in accordance with section 13(2) of the Fisheries Act [Cap. 158].
1. Authorized fishing area

Subject to clauses 2, 3 and 4 a foreign fishing vessel and a locally based foreign fishing vessel may fish within the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Vanuatu within the meaning of section 9 of the Maritime Zones Act [Cap. 138].

2. Closed Areas prohibited for fishing for a foreign fishing vessel and certain locally based foreign fishing vessels

(1) A foreign fishing vessel must not fish within a closed area in the Republic of Vanuatu.

(2) A locally based foreign fishing vessel that is chartered by a company that is not wholly owned by persons who are citizens of the Republic of Vanuatu must not fish within a closed area in the Republic of Vanuatu.

All areas of the sea within a line measured seaward from the archipelagic baselines, every point of which is 12 nautical miles from the nearest point of the appropriate archipelagic baseline.

3. Closed Areas prohibited for fishing for other locally based foreign fishing vessels
(1) A locally based foreign fishing vessel that is chartered by a company that is wholly owned by persons who are citizens of the Republic of Vanuatu must not fish within a closed area in the Republic of Vanuatu

All areas of the sea within a line measured seaward from the archipelagic baselines, every point of which is 9 nautical miles from the nearest point of the appropriate archipelagic baseline.

Note:
The archipelagic baselines are described in the Maritime Zones Act [CAP 138] as set out below.

An archipelagic baseline commencing at the outermost point of the low-water line on the reef off Hat Island co-ordinate 13°04’18” South 166°32’13.8” East, British Admiralty Chart No.1575 and, except where the contrary intention appears, following the Geodesic lines successively linking the outermost points on the low-water lines of the land areas specified below:

Point	Land Area	South		East	British Admiralty Chart Number*
1	Vat Ganai Island	13°15’10.8”		167°38’10.5”	1575
2	Vetvai Point on Motlav Island	13°38’46.8”		167°42’25.5”	1575
3	Islet off Meralava Island	14°26’22.9”		168°04’10.2”	1575
4	Treerock Point on Pentecost Island	15°55’38.4”		168°16’32.5”	1575
5	Tongariki Island	17°00’38.4”		168°38’27”	1576
6	Maniuro Point on Efate Island	17°41’42”		168°35’10”	1576
7	Goat Islet off Erromanga	18°42’09.6”		169°17’43.5”	1576
8	Reef off Futuna Island	19°30’ 42”		170°13’44.3”	1576
9	Masi Point on Futuna Island	19°32’37.7”		170°13’34.7”	1576
10	Reef on Aneityum Island	20°11’45.6”		169°53’42”	1576
and thence along the low-water line to point (11)
11	Flat Rock off Aneityum Island	20°15’30”	169°50’42.9”		1576
12	Reef off Aneityum Island	20°15’58.2”	169°45’25.9”		1576
13	Imlao on Tanna Island	19°34’51.6”	169°16’42.6”		1576
and thence along the low-water line to point (14)
14	West Point Tanna Island	19°27’09”	169°12’39”		1576
15	Ountovin Point on Erromanga Island	18°52’51”	168°59’03.6”		1576
16	Tukutuku Point on Efate Island	17°43’09.6”	168°09’02.4”		1576
17	Tomman Island	16°35’37.5”	167°27’17.4”		1575
18	Reef off Santo	15°39’24.6”	166°45’58.8”		1575
19	Remarkable Point on Santo Island	15°24’04.5”	166°38’27”		1575
20	Reef off Santo Island	14°51’06”	166°32’00.6”		1575
21	on NW Coast of Santo	14°44’51.6”	166°32’42.6”		1575
22	Thomeuf Point on Hui Island	13°10’21”	166°31’58.5”		1575
23	On reef off Hui Island	13°04’18”	166°32’13.8”		1575

*The Edition of charts referred to in the fifth column are
1575 7th September 1979
1576 24th November 1978

A foreign fishing vessel and a locally based foreign fishing vessel must not fish within a rectangular closed area defined by the Geodesic lines linking the four points described for each area in the following table:

Area	Point	Latitude (S)	Longitude (E)
1	1	15° 59' 24.0"	165° 59' 24.0"
	2	15° 59' 24.0"	166° 11' 24.0"
	3	15° 50' 24.0"	166° 11' 24.0"
	4	15° 50' 24.0"	165° 59' 24.0"

Vanuatu Consolidated Subsidiary Legislation

General Conditions for Foreign Fishing Vessels... (1) Published Extraordinary Gazette No. 5 of 2003