TITLE I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Definitions
Article 4
For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
1. ‘ICCAT species’ means species listed in Annex I;
2. ‘tropical tuna’ means bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna and skipjack tuna;
3. ‘fishing vessel’ means any vessel equipped for commercial exploitation of marine biological resources or a bluefin tuna trap;
4. ‘catching vessel’ means a fishing vessel used for the purpose of the capture of marine biological resources;
5. “
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. in the case of the Secretary of State and the Marine Management Organisation, registered to a port in England;
  2. in the case of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland, registered to a port in Northern Ireland;
  3. in the case of the Scottish Ministers, registered to a port in Scotland; or
  4. in the case of the Welsh Ministers registered to a port in Wales;
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. ‘special fishing authorisation’ means an authorisation issued in respect of a United 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. ‘transhipment’ means the unloading of all or any fisheries products on board a vessel to another vessel;
9. ‘recreational fishery’ means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine biological resources for recreation, tourism or sport;
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. ‘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. ‘CPC’ means contracting parties to the ICCAT Convention and cooperating non-contracting parties, entities or fishing entities;
13. ‘ICCAT Convention area’ means all waters of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas;
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. ‘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. ‘large-scale pelagic longline vessel’ means a pelagic longline vessel greater than 24 metres in length overall;
17. ‘large-scale fishing vessel’ means a fishing vessel greater than 20 metres in length overall;
18. ‘large-scale catching vessel’ means a catching vessel greater than 20 metres in length overall;
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. ‘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. ‘carrier vessel’ means a support vessel engaged in transhipment and receiving ICCAT species from a large-scale pelagic longline vessel;
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. ‘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. ‘fish-aggregating device’ (FAD) means any equipment which is floating on the sea surface and is deployed with the objective of attracting fish;
25. ‘IUU fishing’ means fishing activities defined in point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008;
26. ‘ICCAT IUU list’ means a list of vessels which are considered by ICCAT to have engaged in IUU fishing;
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. ‘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. ‘hook’ means a bent, sharpened piece of steel wire.
Art. 4(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 7(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 4(7) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 7(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)