This Regulation fixes the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks in the Baltic Sea for 2015.
This Regulation shall apply to Union fishing vessels operating in the Baltic Sea.
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:
‘ICES’ means International Council for the Exploration of the Sea;
‘Baltic Sea’ means ICES zones IIIb, IIIc and IIId;
‘subdivision’ means an ICES subdivision of the Baltic sea as defined in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 2187/2005(1);
‘fishing vessel’ means any vessel equipped for commercial exploitation of marine biological resources;
‘Union fishing vessel’ means a fishing vessel flying the flag of a Member State and registered in the Union;
‘fishing effort’ means the product of the capacity and the activity of a fishing vessel; for a group of fishing vessels it is the sum of the fishing effort of all fishing vessels in the group;
‘stock’ means a marine biological resource that occurs in a given management area;
‘total allowable catch’ (TAC) means the quantity of each stock that can be:
caught over the period of a year, in the fisheries that are subject to the landing obligation pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013; or
landed over the period of a year, in the fisheries that are not subject to the landing obligation pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013;
‘quota’ means a proportion of the TAC allocated to the Union, a Member State or a third country;
‘days absent from port’ means any continuous period of 24 hours or part thereof during which a fishing vessel is not present in a port.
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).