- bottom fishing activities
means fishing activities where the fishing gear is likely to contact the seafloor during the normal course of fishing operations;
- bottom gears
means gears deployed in the normal course of fishing operations in contact with the seabed, including bottom trawls, dredges, bottom-set gill nets, bottom-set longlines, pots and traps;
- existing bottom fishing areas
means areas where VMS data and/or other available geo-reference data indicate that bottom fishing activities have been conducted within a reference period of 1987 to 2007;
- exploratory fisheries
means fisheries conducted in new bottom fishing areas;
- Gulf of Cádiz
means the area of ICES zone IXa east of longitude 7°23′48″W;
- High Seas of the Bering Sea
means the area of the high seas of the Bering Sea beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea of the coastal States of the Bering Sea is measured.
- Indicator species of coral
means antipatharians, gorgonians, cerianthid anemone fields, lophelia, or sea pen fields.
- international waters
means waters falling outside the sovereignty or jurisdiction of any State.
- Kattegat
means the area bounded on the north by a line drawn from the Skagen lighthouse to the Tistlarna lighthouse and from this point to the nearest point on the Swedish coast and on the south by a line drawn from Hasenøre to Gnibens Spids, from Korshage to Spodsbjerg and from Gilbjerg Hoved to Kullen;
- marine ecosystem
means a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment interacting as a functional unit;
- new bottom fishing areas
means areas within the SEAFO Regulatory Area other than existing bottom fishing areas;
- Presentation
means the way fish has been processed.
- quota
means a proportion of the TAC allocated to the Community, Member States or third countries;
- significant adverse impacts
means impacts (evaluated individually, in combination or cumulatively) which compromise ecosystem integrity in a manner that impairs the ability of affected populations to replace themselves and that degrades the long-term natural productivity of habitats, or causes on more than a temporary basis significant loss of species richness, habitat or community types;
- Skagerrak
means the area bounded on the west by a line drawn from the Hanstholm lighthouse to the Lindesnes lighthouse and on the south by a line drawn from the Skagen lighthouse to the Tistlarna lighthouse and from this point to the nearest point on the Swedish coast;
- total allowable catches
(TAC) means the quantity that can be taken and landed from each stock each year;
- Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME)
means any marine ecosystem whose integrity (i.e. ecosystem structure or function) is, according to the best scientific information available and to the principle of precaution, threatened by significant adverse impacts resulting from physical contact with bottom gears in the normal course of fishing operations, including reefs, seamounts, hydrothermal vents, cold water corals or cold water sponge beds.