Regulation on fishing of bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) with purse seiners and on conditions and criteria for exercising the right to the allocation of an individual purse seine quota.

This Regulation, based on the provisions of the Croatian Law on marine fisheries, prescribes the following bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) related fishing provisions: generic conditions for fishing; conditions for the possibility of exercising the right to fishing quota allocation; transfer of the right to register the surrounding purse seiner net from one to another privilege for commercial fishing at sea; state quota for bluefin tuna fishing with a purse seiner and conditions and criteria for the allocation of an individual purse seine quota; compensation for the assigned catch quota; method and conditions for issuing and transferring the Permit for tuna fishing with purse seiner; term for which the Permit is issued and the form of such Permit; data delivery; sampling; unloading and transshipment; trade; joint fishing operations; register of vessels that participate in catching, transporting, growing and landing tuna; transfer at sea; observer programme on engaged fishing vessels; handling of accidental catches of sensitive species. This text ensures the implementation of the Regulation (EU) 2016/1627 of the European Parliament and of the Council on a multiannual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No. 302/2009. This Ordinance is harmonized with Recommendation 21-08 of the International Commission for the Protection of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), which establishes a multi-year protection and management plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.