Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/98Show full title

Article 2 Definitions

For the purpose of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

(1)

‘NAFO Convention area’ means the geographical areas specified in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 217/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1);

(2)

‘Fisheries under the purview of NAFO’ means the fisheries in the NAFO Convention area concerning all fishery resources, with the following exceptions: salmon, tunas and marlins, cetacean stocks managed by the International Whaling Commission or any successor organisation, and sedentary species of the Continental Shelf, i.e., organisms which, at the harvestable stage, either are immobile on or under the seabed or are unable to move except in constant physical contact with the seabed or the subsoil;

(3)

‘North Atlantic Ocean’ means the area of the Atlantic Ocean north of 5° N;

(4)

‘Recreational fisheries’ means a non-commercial fishery whose participants do not adhere to a national sport organisation or are not issued with a national sport licence;

(5)

‘Sport fishery’ means a non-commercial fishery whose participants adhere to a national sport organisation or are issued with a national sport licence.

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 217/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of catch and activity statistics by Member States fishing in the north-west Atlantic (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 42).