Orange Roughy

1. The Orange Roughy Protection Areas are defined as the following sea areas:

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

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

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.

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 ANNEX