This Regulation fixes the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks in the Baltic Sea for 2019 and amends certain fishing opportunities in other waters fixed by Regulation (EU) 2018/120.
1.This Regulation shall apply to Union fishing vessels operating in the Baltic Sea.
2.This Regulation shall also apply to recreational fisheries where they are expressly referred to in the relevant provisions.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 apply.
In addition, the following definitions apply:
‘subdivision’ means an ICES subdivision of the Baltic Sea as defined in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005(1);
‘total allowable catch’ (TAC) means the quantity of each stock that can be caught over the period of a year;
‘quota’ means a proportion of the TAC allocated to the Union, a Member State or a third country;
‘recreational fisheries’ means non-commercial fishing activities exploiting marine biological resources such as for recreation, tourism or sport.
Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005 of 21 December 2005 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures in the Baltic Sea, the Belts and the Sound, amending Regulation (EC) No 1434/98 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 88/98 (OJ L 349, 31.12.2005, p. 1).