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

(1) ‘fishing vessel’ means any vessel equipped for commercial exploitation of marine biological resources;

(2) ‘Union fishing vessel’ means a fishing vessel flying the flag of a Member State and registered in the Union;

(3) ‘ICCAT Convention area’ means all waters of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas;

(4) ‘Mediterranean Sea’ means maritime waters of the Mediterranean to the East of line 5°36′ West;

(5) ‘CPCs’ means Contracting Parties to the ICCAT Convention and Cooperating non-Contracting Parties, Entities or Fishing Entities;

(6) ‘fishing authorisation’ means an authorisation issued in respect of a Union fishing vessel entitling it to carry out specific fishing activities during a specified period, in a given area or for a given fishery under specific conditions;

(7) ‘fishing opportunity’ means a quantified legal entitlement to fish, expressed in terms of catches or fishing effort;

(8) ‘stock’ means a marine biological resource that occurs in a given management area;

(9) ‘fishery products’ means aquatic organisms resulting from any fishing activity or products derived therefrom;

(10) ‘discards’ means catches that are returned to the sea;

(11) ‘recreational fisheries’ means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine biological resources for recreation, tourism or sport;

(12) ‘vessel monitoring system data’ means data on the fishing vessel identification, geographical position, date, time, course and speed transmitted by satellite-tracking devices installed on board fishing vessels to the fisheries monitoring centre of the flag Member State;

(13) ‘landing’ means the initial unloading of any quantity of fisheries products from on board a fishing vessel to land;

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

(15) ‘chartering’ means an arrangement by which a fishing vessel flying the flag of a Member State is contracted for a defined period by an operator in either another Member State or a third country without a change of flag;

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

(17) ‘hook’ means a bent, sharpened piece of steel wire;

(18) ‘rod and line’ means a fishing-line placed in a rod used by anglers and wound on a turning mechanism (reel) used to wind the line.