- acoustic deterrent device
means devices aimed to deter species such as marine mammals from fishing gear by emitting acoustic signals;
- Advisory Councils
means stakeholder groups established in accordance with Article 43 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013;
- Bacoma exit window
means an escape panel constructed in knotless square mesh netting fitted into the top panel of a codend with its lower edge no more than four meshes from the codline;
- Baltic Sea
means Union waters in ICES divisions 3b, 3c and 3d;
- beam trawl
means gear with a trawl net open horizontally by a beam, wing or similar device;
- bird scaring lines
(also called a tori line) means lines with streamers that are towed from a high point near the stern of fishing vessels as baited hooks are deployed, with the aim of scaring seabirds away from the hooks;
- Black Sea
means waters in GFCM geographical sub-area 29 as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1343/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- bottom pair trawl
means a bottom trawl towed by two boats simultaneously, one towing each side of the trawl.
- bottom trawl
means a trawl designed and rigged to operate on or near the seabed;
- codend
means the rearmost part of the trawl, having either a cylindrical shape, with the same circumference throughout, or a tapering shape.
- combined gillnet and trammel net
means any bottom-set gillnet combined with a trammel net which constitutes the lower part;
- conservation status of a habitat
means the sum of the influences acting on a natural habitat and its typical species that may affect its long-term natural distribution, structure and functions as well as the long-term survival of its typical species;
- conservation status of a species
means the sum of the influences acting on the species concerned that may affect the long-term distribution and abundance of its populations;
- diamond mesh
means a mesh composed of four bars of the same length where the two diagonals of the mesh are perpendicular and one diagonal is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the net;
- direct restocking
means the activity of releasing live wild animals of selected species into waters where they occur naturally, in order to use the natural production of the aquatic environment to increase the number of individuals available for fisheries and/or to increase natural recruitment;
- directed fishing
means fishing effort targeted at a specific species or group of species and may be further specified at regional level in delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 27(7) of this Regulation;
- dredges
means gear which are either actively towed by the main boat engine (boat dredge) or hauled by a motorised winch from an anchored vessel (mechanised dredge) to catch bivalves, gastropods or sponges and which consist of a net bag or metal basket mounted on a rigid frame or rod of variable size and shape whose lower part may carry a scraper blade that can be either rounded, sharp or toothed, and may or may not be equipped with skids and diving boards.
- driftnet
means a net held on the water surface or at a certain distance below it by floating devices and drifting with the current, either independently or with the boat to which it may be attached.
- drop
means the sum of the height of the meshes (including knots) in a net when wet and stretched perpendicular to the float line;
- electric pulse trawl
means a trawl which uses an electric current to catch marine biological resources;
- entangling net
means a static net consisting of a wall of netting rigged so that the netting is hung onto the ropes to create a greater amount of slack netting than a gillnet;
- exploitation pattern
means how fishing mortality is distributed across the age and size profile of a stock;
- gear monitoring sensors
means remote electronic sensors that are placed on fishing gear to monitor key performance parameters such as the distance between trawl doors or volume of the catch;
- gillnet
means a static net made up of a single piece of net and held vertically in the water by floats and weights;
- good environmental status
means the environmental status of marine waters as defined by Article 3(5) of Directive 2008/56/EC;
- handline
means a single fishing line with one or more lures or baited hooks;
- longline
means a fishing gear consisting of a main line of variable length, to which branch lines (snoods) with hooks are fixed at intervals determined by the target species.
- Mediterranean Sea
means the maritime waters of the Mediterranean to the East of line 5°36′ W;
- mesh size
means:
- North Sea
means Union waters in ICES divisions 2a and 3a and ICES sub-area 4;
- North Western waters
means Union waters in ICES sub-areas 5, 6 and 7;
- pelagic trawl
means a trawl designed and rigged to operate in midwater;
- pots and creels
means traps in the form of cages or baskets having one or more entrances, designed to catch crustaceans, molluscs or fish, that are set on the seabed or suspended above it;
- ring nets
means any surrounding net where the bottom is drawn together by means of a purse line situated at the bottom of the net, which passes through a series of rings along the groundrope, enabling the net to be pursed and closed;
- Scottish seine
means an encircling and towed gear, operated from a boat by means of two long ropes (seine ropes) designed to herd the fish towards the opening of the seine.
- selectivity
means a quantitative expression represented as a probability of capture of marine biological resources of a certain size and/or species;
- selectivity performance indicator
means a reference tool to monitor progress over time towards the achievement of the CFP objective of minimising unwanted catches;
- sensitive habitat
means a habitat whose conservation status, including its extent and the condition (structure and function) of its biotic and abiotic components, is adversely affected by pressures arising from human activities, including fishing activities.
- sensitive species
means a species whose conservation status, including its habitat, distribution, population size or population condition is adversely affected by pressures arising from human activities, including fishing activities.
- SepNep
means an otter trawl which: as referred to in Annex I of this Regulation shall be permitted as an equivalent selectivity device in the directed fisheries for Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus).
- shore seines
means surrounding nets and towed seines set from a boat and pulled towards the shore as they are being operated from the shore or from a vessel moored or anchored by the shore;
- sieve net
means a piece of netting attached to the full circumference of the shrimp trawl in front of the codend or extension piece, and tapering to an apex where it is attached to the bottom sheet of the shrimp trawl.
- small pelagic species
means species such as mackerel, herring, horse mackerel, anchovy, sardine, blue whiting, argentines, sprat, and boarfish;
- soak time
means the period from the point of time when the gear is first put in the water until the point of time when the gear is fully recovered on board the fishing vessel;
- South Western waters
means ICES sub-areas 8, 9 and 10 (Union waters) and CECAF zones 34.1.1, 34.1.2 and 34.2.0 (Union waters);
- spear gun
means a pneumatic or mechanically powered hand-held gun that shoots a spear for the purpose of underwater fishing;
- square mesh
means a quadrilateral mesh composed of two sets of parallel bars of the same nominal length, where one set is parallel to, and the other is at right angles to, the longitudinal axis of the net;
- static nets
means any type of gillnet, entangling net or trammel net that is anchored to the seabed for fish to swim into and become entangled or enmeshed in the netting;
- surrounding nets
means nets which catch fish by surrounding them both from the sides and from below.
- T90
means trawls, Danish seines or similar towed gear having a codend and extension piece produced from knotted diamond mesh netting turned 90o so that the main direction of run of the netting is parallel to the towing direction;
- towed gear
means any trawls, Danish seines, dredges and similar gear which are actively moved in the water by one or more fishing vessels or by any other mechanised system;
- trammel net
means a static net made up of several layers of netting with two outer layers of a large mesh size with a sheet of small mesh sandwiched between them;
- transplantation
means the process by which a species is intentionally transported and released by humans within areas of established populations of that species;
- trawl
means fishing gear which is actively towed by one or more fishing vessels and consisting of a net closed at the back by a bag or a codend;
- Union waters in the Indian Ocean and the West Atlantic
means waters around Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion and Saint Martin under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of a Member State;
- weighted line
means a line of baited hooks with added weight to increase its sinking speed and thereby reduce its time of exposure to seabirds;