These instructions are for masters of vessels who are required by the rules of the European Economic Community to keep a log-book during a fishing voyage and/or to produce a landing/transhipment declaration on return to port.
Masters of Community fishing vessels whose overall length is equal to or more than 10 metres shall keep a logbook.
Masters of Community fishing vessels whose overall length is less than 10 metres shall also keep a logbook if the Member State under whose flag the vessel operates or in which it is registered so requires.]
Textual Amendments
The log-book shall be completed daily by not later than 24.00 hours, and at the time of arrival in port.
The log-book shall also be completed at the time of any inspection at sea.
All the compulsory information shall be given.
Rules considered optional at Community level may be made mandatory if a Member State so wishes, in respect of vessels flying its flag or registered therein. In such cases the relevant authorities will issue additional instructions.
General information on the vessel or vessels, as the case may be, is to be filled in at the top of each page of the log-book.
In the case of pair-fishing the name of the second vessel, the name of its master and its external identification should be entered below those of the vessel in respect of which the log-book is being kept.
The master of the other vessel shall also keep a log-book indicating the quantities caught and kept on board or transhipped, as the case may be, in such a way that there is no double counting of catches.
Fishing gear — the type of gear should be indicated using the code in column 1 of Annex VI.
Mesh size in mm.
The information required on fishing operations is to be filled in against the corresponding numbers on the page of the log-book for each haul or each time the gear is shot.
Indicate under:
start fishing operations: time,
end fishing operations: time,
duration of fishing operations: indicate difference in hours between start and end of fishing operations.
position: latitude and longitude.
Examples
‘ICES division or NAFO sub-area’: refer to the ICES divisions as shown on the maps inside the cover of the log-book and indicate the code of each division.
e.g.: V a) or NAFO 1
Catches of an amountgreater than 50 kg of live-weight equivalent of any species retained on board must be recorded in the logbook. However, for fisheries operations in the Mediterranean, only the species indicated on the list contained in Annex VII must be recorded in the logbook.
If the number of columns is insufficient, use a new page.] ]
Editorial Information
X1 Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2737/1999 of 21 December 1999 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2807/83 laying down detailed rules for recording information on Member States' catches of fish (Official Journal of the European Communities L 328 of 22 December 1999).
Textual Amendments
State the quantity of fish discarded in kilograms live weight or other unit of measurement. This information is for scientific purposes only and is not taken into account for the calculation of quotas.
A new page should be filled in for each day using a new line for each haul or each time the gear is shot.
On entering port after each voyage, masters of all fishing vessels more than 10 metres in length and flying the flag of, or registered in, a Member State, or their agents, shall submit a landing declaration to the authorities at the place of landing.
In the case of transhipment or landings outside the territory of the Community, the master shall immediately transmit to the State whose flag his vessel is flying or in which it is registered, the information given on the landing or transhipment declaration.
In the case of transhipment the master of the fishing vessel shall enter the quantities on the transhipment declaration. A copy of the transhipment declaration shall be handed to the master of the recipient vessel. The original of the customs document T 2 M completed by the master of the fishing vessel shall also be handed to the master of the recipient vessel.
Declaration of the quantities landed or transhipped. Indicate on the declaration for each species but only on the last page used, as follows:
ICES division/NAFO sub-area and non-member country fishing zone
Optional entry for those vessels obliged to keep a log-book: indicate the ICES division or NAFO sub-area in which the catches were taken.
Presentation of the fish
‘Presentation’ means the way fish has been processed. Indicate the nature of this processing if any: GUT for gutting, HEAD for heading, FILLET for filleting, etc. Where no processing has taken place, WHOLE for whole fish.
Measurement unit for landed quantities
Give the unit of weight used (e.g. basket, box, etc.) for landing fish and the net weight in kilograms live weight of the unit used. This unit may be different from that used in the log-book.
Total weight by species landed/transhipped
[F2 [X1Give the weight or quantities actually landed or transhipped for all species.] ]
The weight should correspond to the weight of fish as landed, i.e. after any processing on board.
Conversion coefficients will be applied subsequently by the appropriate authorities in the Member State to calculate the corresponding live weight.