Title II, Chapter III, Section 3, Article 13 · Regulation (EU) 2024/2594

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Article 13Recording of catch and fishing effort#

1.Masters of Union fishing vessels engaged in fishing activities in the Regulatory Area shall keep an electronic fishing logbook.

2.The electronic fishing logbook data transmitted by the master and stored at the FMC shall be considered to be official data. Those data and any changes thereof shall be notified to the NEAFC Secretariat by the FMC without delay.

3.Masters of Union fishing vessels engaged in fishing activities which process or freeze their catch shall in addition:

(a)record their cumulative production by species and product form in a production logbook in accordance with Annex VI; and

(b)stow in the hold all processed catch in such a way that the location of each species can be identified from a stowage plan maintained on board the fishing vessel in accordance with the following requirements:

(i)processed catches shall be stowed and marked in such a way that the same species, product categories and quantities can be identified when stowed in different parts in the hold;

(ii)the stowage plan shall show the location of the products in the holds as well as the quantities of the products on board stated in kilogrammes and be updated every day for the preceding day reckoned from 00:00 hours until 24:00 hours Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); and

(iii)the list of codes of product form, type of packing, type of container and type of processing shall be in accordance with Annex VII.

4.Union fishing vessels with frozen catch on board of fishery resources caught in the Convention Area by more than one fishing vessel may stow the fish from each vessel in more than one part of the hold, provided that the fish from each donor vessel is clearly separate (for example by plastic, plywood, netting etc.) from fish caught by other fishing vessels. All catches taken inside the Convention Area shall be stowed separately from all catches taken outside that area.

5.The recordings in the electronic fishing logbook shall be available for inspectors on board the fishing vessel for a period of at least 12 months.

6.All recorded date and time elements shall be indicated in UTC time. Coordinates shall be reported in decimal degrees to three decimal places using the WGS84 coordinate reference system.

7.The master of the fishing vessel shall be responsible for ensuring that the quantities recorded in accordance with this Article correspond accurately to the quantities kept on board.

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bottom fishing
means the use of fishing gear that is likely to contact the seafloor during the normal course of fishing operations;
closed bottom fishing areas
means areas closed to bottom fishing for the protection of VMEs in the Regulatory Area, as specified in point 8 of Annex IV;
Contracting Parties
means the Contracting Parties to the Convention;
Convention
means the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in North-East Atlantic fisheries;
Convention Area
means the areas:
declaration
means a report of a fishing activity that is taking or has taken place at the time of its recording and transmission;
EFCA
means the European Fisheries Control Agency established by Regulation (EU) 2019/473 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
electronic data
means all documents, reports, messages and forms electronically transmitted and received pursuant to the provisions of the NEAFC Scheme;
electronic fishing logbook
means the record by electronic means of fishing activity details recorded by the master of a fishing vessel and transmitted to the flag State from the prior notification of entry into the Regulatory Area until the exit from the Regulatory Area;
encounter
means the catch of VME indicator species above the following threshold levels:
existing bottom fishing areas
means the portion of the Regulatory Area where bottom fishing occurred in the period between 1987 to 2007, as defined by the coordinates set out in Annex III;
exploratory bottom fishing
means all commercial bottom fishing within restricted bottom fishing areas or, if there are significant changes to the conduct and technology of bottom fishing, within existing bottom fishing areas;
fishery resources
means the resources of fish, molluscs, crustaceans and including sedentary species, excluding, in so far as they are dealt with by other international agreements, highly migratory species listed in Annex I of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982, and anadromous stocks;
fishing activities
means fishing, including joint fishing operations, fish processing operations, the transhipment or landing of fishery resources or products thereof and any other commercial activity in preparation for, or related to, fishing, including packaging, transporting, refuelling or resupplying;
fishing trip
means, with regard to fishing activities in the Regulatory Area, any voyage of a fishing vessel during which fishing activities are conducted from the time of entry into until its exit from the Regulatory Area;
fishing vessel
means any vessel used or intended for use for the purpose of commercial exploitation of fishery resources, including fish processing vessels and vessels engaged in transhipment;
FMC
means a land-based fisheries monitoring centre of the flag State;
joint fishing operation
means any operation between two or more fishing vessels where catch is taken from the fishing gear of one fishing vessel to another;
message
means the standardised form in which reports are exchanged between Contracting Parties and the NEAFC Secretariat or between Member States and the Commission;
NEAFC
means the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission;
non-Contracting Party vessel
means any vessel engaged in fishing activities that is flagged neither in a Contracting Party nor in an active cooperating non-Contracting Party to NEAFC, or any fishing vessel for which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting it to be without nationality;
port
means any place on shore used for landing or for the provision of services in relation to, or in support of, fishing activities, or a place on or close to the shore designated by a Contracting Party for transhipping of fishery resources;
prior notification
means a report on the intention to perform an activity in the future;
regulated resources
means the fishery resources which are subject to recommendations under the Convention and are listed in Annex I;
Regulatory Area
means the waters of the Convention Area which lie beyond the waters under the fisheries jurisdiction of Contracting Parties;
report
means the standardised information related to fishing activities recorded by electronic means;
significant adverse impacts
means impacts referred to in paragraphs 17 to 20 of the FAO International Guidelines for the Management of Deep-Sea Fisheries in the High Seas;
transhipment operation
means the direct transfer of any quantity of fishery resources or products thereof retained on board from one fishing vessel to another;
VMS
means a fishing vessel monitoring system providing the competent authorities with data at regular intervals on the position, course and speed of the fishing vessel;