Request for information on targeted shark fishing
Dear Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:
1. Any documents, records, emails, minutes or notes of meetings/discussions pertaining to the targeted or directed fishing of sharks by longline vessels, companies or fleets in RFMO waters.
2. Any documents, records, emails, minutes or notes of meetings/discussions pertaining to the use of wire leaders (also known as wire traces, wire leads, cables de acero, reinales de acero, etc) by longline vessels, companies or fleets in RFMO waters.
Yours faithfully,
Philip Jacobson
Mongabay.com
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are writing to you concerning your request for access to documents sent
on 21/06/2024 and registered on 24/06/2024 under case number 2024/3357.
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Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries - Access to
Documents
European Commission
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Dear Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,
Okay, it's:
55 Pineapple St 6F
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
Yours faithfully,
Philip Jacobson
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 21/06/2024 and registered on 25/06/2024 under the case number
2024/3357.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 16/07/2024. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
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Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries - Access to
Documents
European Commission
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MARE ACCES TEAM
Dear Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,
To clarify my request, the RFMOs concerned would include ICCAT, WCPFC, IOTC and IATTC.
In terms of the time period, I'd be interested in anything since the year 2000.
Yours faithfully,
Philip Jacobson
Dear Mr. Jacobson,
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MARE ACCES TEAM
Dear Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,
To further narrow the request, how about removing IOTC and focusing on 2010-2024?
Yours faithfully,
Philip Jacobson
Dear Mr Jacobson,
Thank you for your email of 29 July, with which you replied to our fair solution proposal sent on Friday 26 July (Ref. Ares(2024)5441253) and linked to your access to documents request EASE 2024/3357.
Following your question on the possibility to remove IOTC from the scope and focus on the period 2010-2024, we would like to inform you that the relevant estimated list would amount to 92 documents, therefore exceeding the maximum number of 25 as per our letter. However, should you still be interested in targeting your request to ICCAT, IATTC and WCPFC from 2010-2024, you can find an updated list here below, categorized by year, from which you can select up to 25 documents.
01/01/2010 31/12/2010 0
01/01/2011 31/12/2011 5
01/01/2012 31/12/2012 9
01/01/2013 31/12/2013 9
01/01/2014 31/12/2014 6
01/01/2015 31/12/2015 22
01/01/2016 31/12/2016 6
01/01/2017 31/12/2017 4
01/01/2018 31/12/2018 2
01/01/2019 31/12/2019 3
01/01/2020 31/12/2020 5
01/01/2021 31/12/2021 7
01/01/2022 31/12/2022 4
01/01/2023 31/12/2023 8
01/01/2024 22/07/2024 2
Please be informed that, should the above not suit your needs, you are entitled to still select 25 documents from the extended list shared with you with our letter of 26 July, which remains valid. We also refer to the content of said letter regarding both the deadline for your feedback and the information on the documents falling within the remaining requested timeframe.
Best regards,
MARE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM
Dear Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,
To further narrow the request, you could remove IATTC as well as IOTC, so just looking at ICCAT and WCPFC.
I would say to start with Jan. 1, 2010, and progress chronologically toward the present, providing as many documents as possible. If you can only provide 25, so be it, but ideally you could provide a greater number than that.
Yours faithfully,
Philip Jacobson
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Dear Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,
Hi,
Thank you for these documents.
Now that you have provided me with the first 25 documents from Jan. 1, 2010 that were relevant to my request, can you provide me with the next 25 that showed up?
Yours faithfully,
Philip Jacobson
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 27/08/2024 and registered on 27/08/2024 under the case number
2024/4432.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 17/09/2024. We will let you know
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Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries - Access to
Documents
European Commission
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Hello,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 27 August 2024 under case number EASE 2024/4432.
We are currently working on your request. However, we have not yet been
able to gather all the elements necessary to carry out a full analysis of
your request. In particular, some of the requested documents originate
from third parties, which have to be consulted. We will not be able to
send you the reply within the prescribed time limit expiring on 17
September 2024.
Therefore, in line with Article 7(3) of [1]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001,
we need to extend this time limit by 15 additional working days. The new
time limit expires on 8 October 2024.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Kind regards,
MARE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS TEAM
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Dear Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,
Hi,
Thank you for these documents.
Now that you have provided me with the second batch of 25 documents from Jan. 1, 2010 that were relevant to my request, can you provide me with the next 25 that showed up?
Yours faithfully,
Philip Jacobson
Dear Sir or Madam,
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your request for access to documents
sent on 30/10/2024 and registered on 31/10/2024 under the case number
2024/5849.
We will handle your request within 15 working days as of the date of
registration. The time-limit expires on 22/11/2024. We will let you know
if we need to extend this time limit for additional 15 working days.
To find more information on how we process your personal data, please see
[1]the privacy statement.
Yours faithfully,
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries - Access to
Documents
European Commission
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MARE ACCES TEAM
Hello,
We are writing concerning your request for access to Commission documents
registered on 31/10/2024 under case number EASE 2024/5849.
On 12/11/2024 we asked you to clarify the scope of your request since it
was not clear.
Since you have not replied to our clarification request, we could not
start handling it and we have closed this case.
Kind regards,