# 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, Article 7: Orange Roughy

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The Orange Roughy Protection Areas are defined as the following sea areas:
(a) that sea area enclosed by rhumb lines sequentially joining the following positions:
57° 00′ N, 11° 00′ W
57° 00′ N, 8° 30′ W
56° 23′ N, 8° 30′ W
55° 00′ N, 9° 38′ W
55° 00′ N, 11° 00′ W
57° 00′ N, 11° 00′ W
(b) that sea area enclosed by rhumb lines sequentially joining the following positions:
55° 30′ N, 15° 49′ W
53° 30′ N, 14° 11′ W
50° 30′ N, 14° 11′ W
50° 30′ N, 15° 49′ W
(c) that sea area enclosed by rhumb lines sequentially joining the following positions:
55° 00′ N, 13° 51′ W
55° 00′ N, 10° 37′ W
54° 15′ N, 10° 37′ W
53° 30′ N, 11° 50′ W
53° 30′ N, 13° 51′ W
Those positions and the corresponding rhumb lines and vessel positions shall be measured according to the WGS84 standard.
2. 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.
3. 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:
all 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
the average speed during transit is not less than 8 knots.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/2270/article/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2270/article-7
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