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Article 7 Orange Roughy

United Kingdom

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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:

(a)

all gears carried on board are lashed and stowed during the transit in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 20(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93;

(b)

the average speed during transit is not less than 8 knots.