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) ‘Union fishing vessel’ means a fishing vessel flying the flag of a Member State and registered in the Union; (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 Union 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.