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Definitions For the purpose of this Chapter, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘CPCs’ means Contracting Parties to the International Convention for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tuna and cooperating non-contracting parties, entities or fishing entities;

(b) ‘Fishing vessel’ means any vessel used or intended for use for the purposes of the commercial exploitation of tuna resources, included fish processing vessels and vessels engaged in transhipment;

(c) ‘Joint fishing operation’ means any operations between two or more vessels flying the flag of different CPCs or of different Member States where the catch of one vessel is attributed in total or in part to one or more other vessels;

(d) ‘Transfer activities’ means any transfer of bluefin tuna (i) from the fishing vessel to the end fattening bluefin tuna farm, including for the fish dead or escaped during the transport;

(ii) from a bluefin tuna farm or a tuna trap to a processing vessel, transport vessel or to land;

(e) ‘Tuna trap’ means fixed gear anchored to the bottom usually containing a guide net that leads fish into an enclosure;

(f) ‘Caging’ means that bluefin tuna is not taken on board and includes both, fattening and farming;

(g) ‘Fattening’ means caging of bluefin tuna for a short period (usually two to six months) aiming mostly at increasing the fat content of the fish;

(h) ‘Farming’ means caging of bluefin tuna for a period longer than one year, aiming to increase the total biomass;

(i) ‘Transhipment’ means the unloading of all or any of the bluefin tuna on board a fishing vessel to another fishing vessel at port;

(j) ‘Processing vessel’ 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 transformation;

(k) ‘Sport fishery’ means a non-commercial fishery whose participants adhere to a national sport organisation or are issued with a national sport licence;

(l) ‘Recreational fishery’ means a non-commercial fishery whose participants do not adhere to a national sport organisation or are not issued with a national sport licence;

(m) ‘Task II’ means Task II as defined by the International Commission for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in the ‘Field manual for statistics and sampling Atlantic tunas and tuna-like fish’ (Third edition, ICCAT, 1990).