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Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1) ‘the Convention’ means the Convention for the Strengthening of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission established by the 1949 Convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Costa Rica;

(2) ‘the Convention area’ means the geographical area to which the Convention applies as described in Article III of the Convention;

(3) ‘IATTC species’ means stocks of tunas and tuna-like species and other species of fish taken by vessels fishing for tunas and tuna-like species in the Convention area;

(4) ‘Union fishing vessel’ means any vessel flying the flag of a Member State, used or intended for use for the purposes of commercial exploitation of fishery resources, including support vessels, fish processing vessels, vessels engaged in transhipment and carrier vessels equipped for the transportation of fishery products, except container vessels;

(5) ‘Contracting Party’ means the contracting parties to the Convention;

(6) ‘purse seine’ 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;

(7) ‘tropical tunas’ means bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna and skipjack tuna;

(8) ‘data buoys’ means floating devices, either drifting or anchored, that are deployed by governmental or recognised scientific organisations or entities for the purpose of electronically collecting environmental data, and not in support of fishing activities, and which have been notified to the IATTC Secretariat;

(9) ‘fish-aggregating device’ or ‘FAD’ means anchored, drifting, floating or submerged objects deployed or tracked by vessels, including through the use of radio or satellite buoys, for the purpose of aggregating target tuna species for purse seine fishing operations;

(10) ‘interaction’ with data buoys includes, but is not limited to, encircling the buoy with fishing gear, tying up or attaching the vessel, fishing gear, or any part or portion of the vessel, to a data buoy, or cutting its anchor line;

(19) ‘shark lines’ means individual lines attached to the float line or to the floats directly, and used to target sharks, as depicted in Figure 1 of Resolution C-16-05;

(20) ‘large circle hook’ means a hook with the point turned perpendicularly back to the shank to form a generally circular or oval shape, and the point of the hook not offset more than 10 degrees;

(21) ‘the Agreement’ means the Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Programme (AIDCP);

(22) ‘sealed wells’ means any space on board a vessel, intended for the freezing, maintenance or storage of fish, access to which has been blocked to prevent its use for those purposes;

(23) ‘WCPFC’ means the Fisheries Commission for the Western and Central Pacific Ocean established under the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean ;

(24) ‘overlap area’ means the area of overlapping competence between the IATTC and WCPFC geographical areas. That area is the part of the Pacific Ocean bounded by the following lines: the 50°S parallel from its intersection with meridian 150°W until the intersection with meridian 130°W, and the 4°S parallel from its intersection with meridian 150°W until the intersection with meridian 130°W.

(11) ‘operator’ 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;

(12) ‘SAC’ means the Scientific Advisory Committee established under Article XI of the Convention;

(13) ‘transhipment’ means the unloading of all or any fisheries products on board a vessel to another vessel;

(14) ‘Regional Vessel Register’ means the vessel register of the IATTC;

(15) ‘Resolution’ means the binding measures adopted by the IATTC under Article VII of the Convention;

(16) ‘IATTC transhipment declaration form’ means the document contained in Annex 2 to Resolution C-12-07;

(17) ‘observer’ means a person who is authorised and certified by a Member State or Contracting Party to observe, monitor and collect information on board fishing vessels;

(18) ‘longline’ means a fishing gear which comprises a main line carrying numerous hooks on branch lines (snoods) of variable length and spacing depending on target species;