Requirement to encourage vessels to manage FADs deployed and make reasonable efforts to retrieve and report lost FADs
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22. CCMs shall also encourage vessels to: (a) responsibly manage the number of drifting FADs deployed each year; (b) carry equipment on board to facilitate the retrieval of lost drifting FADs; (c) make reasonable efforts to retrieve lost drifting FADs; and (d) report the loss of drifting FADs, and if the loss occurred in the EEZ of a coastal State, report the loss to the coastal State concerned.