Translation of "contact fileté " (French → English) :

‘bottom gears’ means gears deployed in the normal course of fishing operations in contact with the seabed, including bottom trawls, dredges, bottom-set gill nets, bottom-set longlines, pots and traps.

‘bottom gears’ means gears deployed in the normal course of fishing operations in contact with the seabed, including bottom trawls, dredges, bottom-set gill nets, bottom-set longlines, pots and traps.

‘bottom gears’ means fishing equipment deployed on and in contact with the sea bed, such as bottom trawls, dredges, bottom-set gillnets, bottom-set longlines, pots and traps.

The net is kept open horizontally by large steel doors in contact with the ocean bottom, and may be weighted down by chains and cables with heavy discs or rollers, which enable the net to trawl fish over rough seabed or corals.

The Regulation prohibits vessels from using any gillnet, entangling net or trammel net at depths greater than 200 metres and any bottom trawl or similar towed nets operating in contact with the bottom of the sea in the areas around the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands.

Next in line are Morocco and Israel, with whom negotiations are well advanced, Egypt (talks under way), and then Lebanon and Jordan, with whom exploratory contacts are currently taking place. The aim is to build a regional integration network to be known as the Euro-Mediterranean Economic Area (cf. Note IP/95/219 of 8.3.95) Political dialogue The political dialogue set in motion under the Agreement will make it easier for the European Union and Tunisia to inform and consult each other on international affairs affecting them, thus helping to foster mutual trust and understanding.