AFADmeans a FAD tethered to the bottom of the ocean;
carrier vesselmeans a support vessel engaged in transhipment and receiving IOTC species from another vessel;
charteringmeans an agreement or an arrangement by which a fishing vessel flying the flag of a CPC is contracted for a defined period of time by an operator in another CPC without a change of flag;
chartering CPCrefers to the CPC that holds the quota allocation or fishing possibilities and the ‘flag CPC’ refers to the CPC in which the chartered vessel is registered;
CMMmeans an applicable conservation and management measure adopted by the IOTC pursuant to Articles V(2)(c) and IX(1) of the Agreement;
data buoysmeans floating devices, either drifting or anchored, that are deployed by governmental or recognised scientific organisations or entities for the purpose of electronically collecting and measuring environmental data, and not for the purpose of fishing activities;
DFADmeans a FAD not tethered to the bottom of the ocean;
e-PSM applicationmeans the web-based application designed and developed to facilitate and assist a CPC to implement the IOTC resolutions related to port State measures;
FADmeans a permanent, semi-permanent or temporary object, structure or device of any material, man-made or natural, which is deployed and/or tracked for the purpose of aggregating target tuna species for consequent capture;
flag CPCrefers to the CPC in which the chartered vessel is registered;
the Agreementmeans the Agreement for the establishment of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission;
the Areameans those parts of the Indian Ocean as defined in Article II of and Annex A to the Agreement;
unfit for human consumptionmeans a fish that is meshed or crushed in the purse seine, or is damaged due to depredation, or has died and spoiled in the net where a gear failure has prevented both the normal retrieval of the net and catch, and efforts to release the fish alive without including a fish that is considered undesirable in terms of size, marketability or species composition, or a fish that is spoiled or contaminated as the result of an act or omission of the crew of the Union fishing vessel;
Union fishing vesselmeans any vessel of any size flying the flag of a Member State, equipped for commercial exploitation of marine biological resources, including support vessels, fish processing vessels, vessels engaged in transhipment and carrier vessels equipped for the transportation of fishery products, except container vessels;