ANNEX I U.K. Deep-sea species

Scientific name	Common name	Most vulnerable (x)
Centrophorus spp.	Gulper sharks
Centroscyllium fabricii	Black dogfish	x
Centroscymnus coelolepis	Portuguese dogfish	x
Centroscymnus crepidater	Longnose velvet dogfish	x
Dalatias licha	Kitefin shark	x
Etmopterus princeps	Greater lanternshark	x
Apristuris spp.	Iceland catshark
Chlamydoselachus anguineus	Frilled shark
Deania calcea	Birdbeak dogfish
Galeus melastomus	Blackmouth dogfish
Galeus murinus	Mouse catshark
Hexanchus griseus	Bluntnose six-gilled shark	x
Etmopterus spinax	Velvet belly
Oxynotus paradoxus	Sailfin roughshark (Sharpback shark)
Scymnodon ringens	Knifetooth dogfish
Somniosus microcephalus	Greenland shark
Alepocephalidae	Smoothheads (Slickheads)
Alepocephalus Bairdii	Baird's smoothhead
Alepocephalus rostratus	Risso's smoothhead
Aphanopus carbo	Black scabbardfish
Argentina silus	Greater silver smelt
Beryx spp.	Alfonsinos
Chaceon (Geryon) affinis	Deep-water red crab
Chimaera monstrosa	Rabbitfish (rattail)
Hydrolagus mirabilis	Large-eyed rabbitfish (Ratfish)
Rhinochimaera atlantica	Straightnose rabbitfish
Coryphaenoides rupestris	Roundnose grenadier
Epigonus telescopus	Black cardinalfish	x
Helicolenus dactilopterus	Bluemouth (Bluemouth redfish)
Hoplostethus atlanticus	Orange roughy	x
Macrourus berglax	Roughhead grenadier (Rough rattail)
Molva dypterigia	Blue ling
Mora moro	Common mora
Antimora rostrata	Blue antimora (Blue hake)
Pagellus bogaraveo	Red (blackspot) seabream
Polyprion americanus	Wreckfish
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides	Greenland halibut
Cataetyx laticeps
Hoplosthetus mediterraneus	Silver roughy (Pink)
Macrouridae other than Coryphaenoides rupestris and Macrourus berglax	Grenadiers (rattails) other than roundnose grenadier and roughhead grenadier
Nesiarchus nasutus	Black gemfish
Notocanthus chemnitzii	Snubnosed spiny eel
Raja fyllae	Round skate
Raja hyperborea	Arctic skate
Raja nidarosiensus	Norwegian skate
Trachyscorpia cristulata	Spiny (deep-sea) scorpionfish
Lepidopus caudatus	Silver scabbardfish (Cutlass fish)
Lycodes esmarkii	Greater eelpout
Sebastes viviparus	Small redfish (Norway haddock)

ANNEX II U.K. Specific data collection and reporting requirements referred to in Article 15(2)

1. Member States shall ensure that data collected for an area that comprises both Union waters and international waters are further disaggregated so that they refer to Union waters or international waters separately. U.K.

2. Where the activity in the deep-sea métier overlaps with activity in another métier in the same area, the data collection concerning the former shall be carried out separately from the data collection concerning the latter. U.K.

3. Discards shall be sampled in all deep-sea métiers. The sampling strategy for landings and discards shall cover all the species listed in Annex I, as well as species belonging to the seabed ecosystem such as deep-water corals, sponges or other organisms belonging to the same ecosystem. U.K.

4. An observer deployed on board shall be requested to identify and document the weight of any stony coral, soft coral, sponges or other organisms belonging to the same ecosystem taken on board by the vessel's gear. U.K.

5. Where the applicable multiannual data collection plan requires the collection of fishing effort data in terms of hours fished by trawls and soak time for passive gear, Member States shall collect and be ready to present, together with such fishing effort data, the following additional data: U.K.

(a)

geographical location of the fishing activities on a haul-by-haul basis, from VMS data transmitted by the vessel to the fisheries monitoring centre;

(b)

the fishing depths at which the gears are deployed in the event that the vessel is subject to reporting by electronic logbook. The master of the vessel shall notify fishing depth following the standardised reporting format.

ANNEX III U.K. VME Indicator species

The following is a list of VME habitat types, with the taxa most likely to be found in those habitats which shall be considered as VME indicators.

VME Habitat type	Representative Taxa
1. Cold-water coral reef
(a) Lophelia pertusa reef	Lophelia pertusa
(b) Solenosmilia variabilis reef	Solenosmilia variabilis
2. Coral garden
(a) Hard bottom garden
(i) Hard bottom gorgonian and black coral gardens	Anthothelidae Chrysogorgiidae Isididae, Keratoisidinae Plexauridae Acanthogorgiidae Coralliidae Paragorgiidae Primnoidae Schizopathidae
(ii) Colonial scleractinians on rocky outcrops	Lophelia pertusa Solenosmilia variabilis
(iii) Non-reefal scleractinian aggregations	Enallopsammia rostrata Madrepora oculata
(b) Soft-bottom coral gardens
(i) Soft-bottom gorgonian and black coral gardens	Chrysogorgiidae
(ii) Cup-coral fields	Caryophylliidae
(iii) Cauliflower coral fields	Flabellidae Nephtheidae
3. Deep-sea sponge aggregations
(a) Other sponge aggregations	Geodiidae Ancorinidae Pachastrellidae
(b) Hard-bottom sponge gardens	Axinellidae Mycalidae Polymastiidae Tetillidae
(c) Glass sponge communities	Rossellidae Pheronematidae
4. Sea pen fields	Anthoptilidae Pennatulidae Funiculinidae Halipteridae Kophobelemnidae Protoptilidae Umbellulidae Vigulariidae
5. Tube-dwelling anemone patches	Cerianthidae
6. Mud- and sand-emergent fauna	Bourgetcrinidae Antedontidae Hyocrinidae Xenophyophora Syringamminidae
7. Bryzoan patches

ANNEX IV U.K.

An encounter with a possible VME is defined as:

(a)

for a trawl tow, and other fishing gear than longlines: the presence of more than 30 kg of live coral and/or 400 kg of live sponge of VME indicators; and

(b)

for a longline set: the presence of VME indicators on 10 hooks per 1 000 hook segment or per 1 200 m section of longline, whichever is the shorter.