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Subject matter
This Regulation fixes the fishing opportunities by Union fishing vessels flying the flag of Bulgaria and of Romania for 2017 for certain fish stocks in the Black Sea: (a) Turbot ( Psetta maxima ); (b) Sprat ( Sprattus sprattus ).
Scope
This Regulation shall apply to Union fishing vessels operating in the Black Sea.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (a) ‘GFCM’ means General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean; (b) ‘Black Sea’ means the geographical sub-area 29 as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1343/2011 of the European Parliament and the Council ( 4 ) ; (c) ‘fishing vessel’ means any vessel equipped for commercial exploitation of marine biological resources; (d) ‘Union fishing vessel’ means a fishing vessel flying the flag of a Member State and registered in the Union; (e) 'stock. means a marine biological resource that occurs in a given management area; (f) ‘Union autonomous quota’ means a limit of the catches autonomously allocated to the Union fishing vessels in the absence of an agreed TAC; (g) ‘analytical assessments’ means a quantitative evaluation of trends in a given stock, based on data about the stock's biology and exploitation, which scientific review has indicated to be of sufficient quality to provide scientific advice on options for future catches.
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