UNITED STATES - IMPORT PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN SHRIMP AND SHRIMP PRODUCTS REPORT OF THE PANEL
Document: Corrigendum Document WT/DS58/R should be amended as follows:
Date: 3 November 1998
Document codes: WT/DS58/R/Corr.1; WT/DS58/R
Complainant: India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand
Respondent: U.S.
Third parties: Australia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, EU, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Pakistan, Thailand
Dispute stage: Implementation & Compliance
Agreements cited: Art. I, XI, XIII, XX  GATT 1994

UNITED STATES - IMPORT PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN SHRIMP
AND SHRIMP PRODUCTS
REPORT OF THE PANEL
Corrigendum
Document should be amended as follows:
1. Cover page: the second sentence should read: "... The report is being circulated as an
unrestricted document from 15 May 1998 ...".
2. Paragraph 1.6: after Hong Kong, add "(since 1 July 1997, "Hong Kong, China")".
3. Paragraph 3.40: read "Agreement for the Impl ementation of the Provisions of the UNCLOS
relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory
Fish Stocks (1995)", instead of "UN Convention on Straddling Fish Stock and Highly
Migratory Species".
4. Paragraph 3.85: "US$600-700" instead of "US$60-700".
5. Footnote 378: "16 June 1994" instead of "10 June 1994".
6. Paragraph 4.13, 10 th line: "... could harm turtles" and not "... could harm shrimp".
7. Footnote 380: "16 June 1994" instead of "10 June 1994".
8. Paragraph 4.29, 7 th line: "... Vienna Convention".
9. Footnote 384: "p. 30" and not "p. 18".
10. Footnote 389: "BISD 37S/200".
11. Paragraph 5.298, 4
th line: "...gill netting" and not "gill nesting".
12. Paragraph 5.301, 3 rd line: "refuge" instead of "refuse".
13. Paragraph 5.309, 8 th line: replace "pages 1-10" with "paragraphs 1-53"; and "Annex I" with
"Annex II".
14. Footnote 428: "... Plan..." and not "... Plane...".
16. Paragraph 5.333, 4 th sentence: this sentence should start "Dr. Frazier [footnote] cites ...".
17. Paragraph 5.334, 1 st line: delete "that".
18. Paragraph 5.338, 3 rd line: delete the 3 rd w o r d ( " t h a t " ) ; o n 1 0th line, add "to" between
"shrimpers" and "the mandatory...".
19. Footnote 469: " Are TEDs Coming Off?"
20. Paragraph 5.343, 2 nd line: "(Annex II, Appendix 1)".
21. Paragraph 5.353, 1 st sentence: add "not" between "is" and "done".
22. Paragraph 5.364. 2 nd line: "sandy" instead of "candy".
23. Paragraph 7.5. 12 th line: "...would not require TEDs..." instead of "... would require TEDs...".
24. Paragraph 7.37: the quotation should read "Articles XX and XI:2(c)(i) ...".
25. Paragraph 7.48, 4 th line: delete "(hereinafter "CIT")". The use of CIT as an acronym for
Court of International Trade is already mentioned on paragraph 7.4.
26. Paragraph 7.58, 7 th line: "...nature of the species of sea turtles mentioned in Appendix I..."
(not "Annex I").
27. Paragraph 5.348, Table 1: new table (see next page).

Table I
Anthropogenic threat to sea turtle species along the coast of Pakistan
Threat Status
Habitat alteration and
loss
Beach armouring
(e.g. concrete sea
wall)
Beach nourishment/
sand mining
Beach cleaning and
beach driving
Human presence on
beach
No sea wall is constructed along nesting beaches.
No sand mining or beach nourishment is done along the coast of Pakistan especially no
beach alteration on sea turtle nesting areas.
No beach cleaning is done in Pakistan except for some environmental beach cleaning
done by school children on rare occasion to remove debris and solid wastes. But such
cleaning do not affect turtles. Beach drivin g is not done on nesting areas because most
of them are not accessible.
Population in general do not go to beaches frequently. Only on holidays the number of
persons visiting various beaches reaches a few thousands otherwise in a normal working
day only a few hundred people visit the beaches for recreation purposes. Along the
coast of Sandspits, Hawks Bay and Paradise Point, private huts were constructed mainly
in 1960's and 1970's. A number of these huts have collapsed except those which are
renovated regularly. These beach huts are used by picnickers on holidays. These,
however, do not seem to be a threat to turtle population and nesting areas because they
are located only on a few beaches, also not inhabited except on holidays and mostly
located above high water mark in sand berm areas.
Artificial lights Not used along sea coast.
Dredging and
explosive platform
No such activities in Pakistan, especially along turtle nesting beaches.
Boat strikes No report of boat strikes with turtles from Pakistan. Only a few speed boats in Pakistan
which are not operated in turtle areas.
Feral and domestic
animal predation at
rookeries
Feral dogs are reported to dig out recently laid eggs of turtles on some beaches along
Karachi coast. Sindh Wildlife Department with help of municipal agencies regularly
carry out elimination of pye dogs from important turtle beaches. However, it is not a
serious threat to turtle nesting.
Oil pollution Most of the turtle nesting beaches are located West of Karachi, therefore, not affected
from oil pollution generated from Karachi and other ports (because circulation in most
parts of the years remain clockwise). Tar balls are found on sandy beaches. But since
no major oil spill has occurred in the area, therefore, oil pollution seemingly a threat to
turtle nesting beaches. Those turtle found in sea are also not affected because oil
pollution is not a major problem in the area.

Other pollution sources
and entanglement
Debris ingestion
Entanglement
A few reports of debris ingestion report. This problem seems not to be serious at
present.
No record on any turtle entanglement in debris and solid waste materials. May
however, occur if level of such pollutants increase in sea.
Fishing and incidental
capture
Shrimp trawling Not a threat because of small mouth opening of shrimping net, short duration of
operation, location of shrimping ground in muddy cum sandy areas (not a turtle habitat)
and use of manual retrieval system (vs. mechanical retrieval system in other parts of
world such as in United States).
Pelagic fishing gears No record of mortality from any other pelagic fishing gears. Encircling nets are used
for catching sardinellas and anchovies but because of the their mode of operation these
do not pose any threat to turtle population.
Gill nets Major fisheries along the coast of Pakistan. However, seldom any record of turtle in the
nets. If a turtle is found in the net, it is released immediately.
Traditional and
commercial fishing
Egg harvests (legal or
illegal
Adult harvest (legal or
illegal)
No harvesting of eggs in Pakistan.
No legal or illegal harvesting of adult turtle. Considered to religiously forbidden.