{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2270/article-7",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/2270",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 2270/2004 of 22 December 2004 fixing for 2005 and 2006 the fishing opportunities for Community fishing vessels for certain deep-sea fish stocks",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2270",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Orange Roughy",
  "text": "1. The Orange Roughy Protection Areas are defined as the following sea areas:\n(a) that sea area enclosed by rhumb lines sequentially joining the following positions:\n57° 00′ N, 11° 00′ W\n57° 00′ N, 8° 30′ W\n56° 23′ N, 8° 30′ W\n55° 00′ N, 9° 38′ W\n55° 00′ N, 11° 00′ W\n57° 00′ N, 11° 00′ W\n(b) that sea area enclosed by rhumb lines sequentially joining the following positions:\n55° 30′ N, 15° 49′ W\n53° 30′ N, 14° 11′ W\n50° 30′ N, 14° 11′ W\n50° 30′ N, 15° 49′ W\n(c) that sea area enclosed by rhumb lines sequentially joining the following positions:\n55° 00′ N, 13° 51′ W\n55° 00′ N, 10° 37′ W\n54° 15′ N, 10° 37′ W\n53° 30′ N, 11° 50′ W\n53° 30′ N, 13° 51′ W\nThose positions and the corresponding rhumb lines and vessel positions shall be measured according to the WGS84 standard.\n2. Member States shall ensure that vessels holding a deep-sea fishing permit shall be properly monitored by the Fisheries Monitoring Centres (FMC), which shall have a system to detect and record the vessels’ entry into, transit through and exit from the areas defined in paragraph 1.\n3. Vessels holding a deep-sea fishing permit that have entered the areas defined in paragraph 1 shall not retain on board or tranship any quantity of orange roughy, nor land any quantity of orange roughy at the end of that fishing trip unless:\nall gears carried on board are lashed and stowed during the transit in accordance with conditions laid down in Article 20(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93\nthe average speed during transit is not less than 8 knots.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/2270/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:54:59.811075+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}