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The following Articles shall be inserted: ‘Article 7a Special requirements for exploratory fisheries Fishing vessels participating in exploratory fisheries shall be subject to the following additional requirements: (a) vessels shall be prohibited from discharging: (i) oil or fuel products, or oily residues into the sea, except as permitted in Annex I to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78); (ii) garbage; (iii) food wastes not capable of passing through a screen with openings no greater than 25 mm; (iv) poultry or parts thereof (including egg shells); (v) sewage within 12 nautical miles of land or ice shelves, or sewage while the ship is travelling at a speed of less than four knots; or (vi) incineration ash; (b) no live poultry or other living birds shall be brought into Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 and any dressed poultry not consumed shall be removed from Subareas 88.1 and 88.2; (c) fishing for Dissostichus spp. in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 shall be prohibited within 10 nautical miles of the coast of the Balleny Islands. Article 7b Tagging programme 1. Each fishing vessel participating in the exploratory fisheries shall implement a tagging programme as follows: (a) Dissostichus spp. individuals shall be tagged and released in accordance with the provisions set out in the CCAMLR Tagging Program and Protocol for Dissostichus spp. in exploratory fisheries. Vessels shall only discontinue tagging after they have tagged 500 individuals, or leave the fishery having tagged Dissostichus spp. at the specified rate; (b) the programme shall target individuals of all sizes in order to meet the tagging requirement; only toothfish that are in good condition shall be tagged. All released individuals shall be double-tagged and releases shall cover as broad a geographical area as possible; in regions where both Dissostichus species occur, the tagging rate shall, to the extent possible, be in proportion to the species and size of Dissostichus spp. present in the catches; (c) all tags shall be clearly imprinted with a unique serial number and a return address so that the origin of tags can be retraced in the case of recapture of the tagged individual; from 1 September 2007 all tags for use in an exploratory fishery shall be sourced from the Secretariat; (d) all recaptured tagged individuals (i.e. fish caught with a previously inserted tag) shall not be re-released, even if they were at liberty for only a short period; (e) all recaptured tagged individuals shall be biologically sampled (length, weight, sex, gonad stage), an electronic time-stamped photograph taken of the fish, the otoliths recovered and the tag removed; (f) all relevant tag data and any data recording tag recaptures shall be reported electronically in the CCAMLR format to the CCAMLR within three months of the vessel departing these fisheries; (g) all relevant tag data, any data recording tag recaptures and specimens from recaptures shall also be reported electronically in the CCAMLR format to the relevant regional tag data repository as detailed in the CCAMLR Tagging Protocol. 2. Toothfish that is tagged and released shall not be counted against the catch limits.’