Article 3U.K.Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

(a)

‘boarding’: the boarding of a fishing vessel within an organisation's area of competence by one or more authorised inspectors in order to make an inspection;

(b)

‘transhipment’: unloading of any quantity of highly migratory fish and/or products from such fish from on board a fishing vessel to another vessel either at sea or in port, without the products having been recorded by a port State as landed;

(c)

‘landing’: unloading of any quantity of highly migratory fish and/or products from such fish from on board a fishing vessel to port or to land;

(d)

‘infringement’: any presumed act committed or omitted by a fishing vessel that is recorded in an inspection report and gives serious reason for suspecting a breach of the provisions of this Regulation or any other Regulation transposing a recommendation adopted by a regional organisation for one of the zones indicated in Article 2;

(e)

‘vessel of a non-Contracting Party’: vessel observed and identified as engaged in fishing activities in one of the zones specified in Article 2 that is flying the flag of a country that is not a Contracting Party to the relevant regional organisation;

(f)

‘stateless vessel’: vessel for which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting it to be without nationality[F1;]

(g)

[F2‘ fattening ’ : raising of individuals in cages to increase their weight or fat content with a view to marketing;

(h)

‘ caging ’ : placing of wild individuals of any size in closed structures (cages) for fattening;

(i)

‘ fattening farm ’ : enterprise which raises wild individuals in cages for fattening;

(j)

‘ transport vessel ’ : vessel receiving wild individuals and transporting them live to fattening farms.]

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