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

1. (1)

   ‘ICCAT species’ means species listed in Annex I;

2. (2)

   ‘tropical tuna’ means bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna and skipjack tuna;

3. (3)

   ‘fishing vessel’ means any vessel equipped for commercial exploitation of marine biological resources or a bluefin tuna trap;

4. (4)

   ‘catching vessel’ means a fishing vessel used for the purpose of the capture of marine biological resources;

5. (5)

   F1“United Kingdom fishing vessel” means a fishing vessel which is registered in the United Kingdom under Part 2 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995. A reference to a particular kind of fishing vessel is a reference to a United Kingdom fishing vessel of that kind. A reference to the ‘fleet’ of a fisheries administration is a reference to all United Kingdom fishing vessels which are—

   1. (a)

      in the case of the Secretary of State and the Marine Management Organisation, registered to a port in England;

   2. (b)

      in the case of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland, registered to a port in Northern Ireland;

   3. (c)

      in the case of the Scottish Ministers, registered to a port in Scotland; or

   4. (d)

      in the case of the Welsh Ministers registered to a port in Wales;

6. (6)

   ‘fishing authorisation’ means an authorisation issued in respect of a Union fishing vessel entitling it to carry out specific fishing activities during a specified period, in a given area or for a given fishery under specific conditions;

7. (7)

   ‘special fishing authorisation’ means an authorisation issued in respect of a F2United Kingdom fishing vessel entitling it to carry out specific fishing activities with specific gear during a specified period, in a given area or for a given fishery under specific conditions;

8. (8)

   ‘transhipment’ means the unloading of all or any fisheries products on board a vessel to another vessel;

9. (9)

   ‘recreational fishery’ means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine biological resources for recreation, tourism or sport;

10. (10)

    ‘Task I data’ means data defined as Task I by ICCAT in the ‘Field manual for statistics and sampling Atlantic tunas and tuna-like fish’;

11. (11)

    ‘Task II data’ means data defined as Task II by ICCAT in the ‘Field manual for statistics and sampling Atlantic tunas and tuna-like fish’;

12. (12)

    ‘CPC’ means contracting parties to the ICCAT Convention and cooperating non-contracting parties, entities or fishing entities;

13. (13)

    ‘ICCAT Convention area’ means all waters of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas;

14. (14)

    ‘sustainable fisheries partnership agreement’ means an international agreement as defined in point 37 of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013;

15. (15)

    ‘vessel length’ means the distance measured in a straight line between the foremost point of the bow and the aftermost point of the stern;

16. (16)

    ‘large-scale pelagic longline vessel’ means a pelagic longline vessel greater than 24 metres in length overall;

17. (17)

    ‘large-scale fishing vessel’ means a fishing vessel greater than 20 metres in length overall;

18. (18)

    ‘large-scale catching vessel’ means a catching vessel greater than 20 metres in length overall;

19. (19)

    ‘ICCAT record of large-scale fishing vessels’ means the list, maintained by the ICCAT Secretariat, of large-scale fishing vessels authorised to target ICCAT species in the ICCAT Convention area;

20. (20)

    ‘support vessel’ means a vessel other than a craft carried on board that is not equipped with an operational fishing gear and that facilitates, assists or prepares fishing activities, including by supplying a catching vessel;

21. (21)

    ‘carrier vessel’ means a support vessel engaged in transhipment and receiving ICCAT species from a large-scale pelagic longline vessel;

22. (22)

    ‘ICCAT record of carrier vessels’ means the list, maintained by the ICCAT Secretariat, of vessels authorised to receive transhipment at sea from large-scale pelagic longline vessels in the ICCAT Convention area;

23. (23)

    ‘ICCAT record of authorised tropical tunas vessels’ means the list, maintained by the ICCAT Secretariat, of large-scale fishing vessels authorised to fish, retain on board, tranship, transport, process or land tropical tunas in the ICCAT Convention area;

24. (24)

    ‘fish-aggregating device’ (FAD) means any equipment which is floating on the sea surface and is deployed with the objective of attracting fish;

25. (25)

    ‘IUU fishing’ means fishing activities defined in point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008;

26. (26)

    ‘ICCAT IUU list’ means a list of vessels which are considered by ICCAT to have engaged in IUU fishing;

27. (27)

    ‘longlines’ means a fishing gear which comprises a main line carrying numerous hooks on branch lines (snoods) of variable length and spacing depending on the target species;

28. (28)

    ‘purse seines’ means any encircling net the bottom of which is drawn together by means of a purse line at the bottom of the net, which passes through a series of rings along the groundrope, enabling the net to be pursed and closed;

29. (29)

    ‘hook’ means a bent, sharpened piece of steel wire.