Regulation (EU) 2023/2053

means any vessel used to transport dead bluefin tuna (not processed) from a transport or farming cage, a purse seine vessel or a trap to a designated port or to a processing vessel;

means a bluefin tuna catch document;

means the relocation of live bluefin tuna in farms and their subsequent feeding aiming to fatten and increase their total biomass;

means a vessel used for the purposes of the commercial capture of bluefin tuna resources;

means a repetition of the caging operation being implemented at the request of the control authorities, for the purpose of verifying the number or the average weight of fish being caged;

means a stereoscopic camera or conventional video camera for the purpose of the controls pursuant to this Regulation;

means the repetition of any transfer being implemented at the request of control authorities;

means the geographical area, as set out in Article I of the Convention;

means a Contracting Party to the Convention and a cooperating non-contracting party, entity or fishing entity;

means the master, or the master’s representative, of the catching or towing vessel, or the operator, or the operator’s representative, of the farm or trap, from which, except in the case of voluntary and control transfers, a transfer operation originates;

means an electronic bluefin tuna catch document;

means a marine area, in one or more locations all of which are clearly defined by geographical coordinates with a clear definition of longitude and latitude for each one of the points of the polygon, used for the fattening or farming of bluefin tuna caught by traps or purse seine vessels;

means caging of bluefin tuna in farms and subsequently feeding aiming to fatten and increase their total biomass;

means a transfer of live bluefin tuna from a purse seine or a trap to a transport cage;

means, for any catching vessel, the fact that it targets bluefin tuna during a given fishing season;

means the product of the capacity and the activity of a fishing vessel to measure the intensity of the fishing operations;

means any powered vessel used for the purposes of the commercial exploitation of bluefin tuna resources, including catching vessels, processing vessels, support vessels, towing vessels, vessels engaged in transhipment, transport vessels equipped for the transportation of tuna products and auxiliary vessels, except container vessels;

means the Member State where the fishing vessel is flagged;

means any transfer that is conducted after the first transfer and before caging at the farm of destination, such as splitting or merging of the contents of two transport cages, with the exception of voluntary or control transfers;

means a group of fishing vessels using the same gear for which a group quota has been allocated;

means the killing of bluefin tuna in farms or traps;

means the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas;

means the maximum amount of wild bluefin tuna in tonnes that a farm is allowed to cage during a fishing season;

means the relocation of live bluefin tuna from one farm to another farm composed of two phases, a transfer from the donor farm cage to a transport cage and a caging from the transport cage to the receiving farm cage;

means any operation between two or more purse seine vessels where the catch of one purse seine vessel is attributed to one or more purse seine vessels in accordance with a previously agreed allocation key;

means a pelagic longline vessel greater than 24 metres in length overall;

means bluefin tuna that is kept alive for a certain period in a trap, or transferred alive to a farming installation, caged, farmed and finally harvested or released;

means the missing bluefin tuna individuals that, after the potential differences detected during the investigation referred to in Article 50 of this Regulation, have not been justified as mortalities.

means the Member State that exercises its jurisdiction over the donor operator.

means the Member State under whose jurisdiction the farm is located;

means the Member States under whose jurisdiction the trap is located;

means the natural or legal person who operates or holds any undertaking carrying out any of the activities related to any stage of production, processing, marketing, distribution and retail chains of fisheries and aquaculture products;

means a vessel on board of which fisheries products are subject to one or more of the following operations, prior to their packaging: filleting or slicing, freezing and/or processing;

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 ground rope, enabling the net to be pursed and closed;

means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine biological resources for recreation, tourism or sport;

means the Standing Committee on Research and Statistics of the ICCAT;

means a camera with two or more lenses, with a separate image sensor or film frame for each lens, enabling the taking of three-dimensional images for the purpose of measuring the length of the fish;

means any fishing vessel, other than a catching vessel, processing vessel, towing vessel, vessel engaged in transhipment, transport vessel equipped for the transportation of tuna products or auxiliary vessel, authorised to operate in the bluefin tuna fishery to perform support tasks;

means the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas;

means any vessel used for towing live bluefin tuna cages;

means any transfer of:

means the unloading of all or any of the fisheries products on board a fishing vessel to another fishing vessel;

means fixed gear anchored to the bottom, usually containing a guide net that leads bluefin tuna into an enclosure or series of enclosures where it is kept prior to harvesting or farming;

means the repetition of any transfer being voluntarily implemented by the donor operator;