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Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1967/2006, (EC) No 1224/2009 and Regulations (EU) No 1380/2013, (EU) 2016/1139, (EU) 2018/973, (EU) 2019/472 and (EU) 2019/1022 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 894/97, (EC) No 850/98, (EC) No 2549/2000, (EC) No 254/2002, (EC) No 812/2004 and (EC) No 2187/2005
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a Member States may convert the minimum conservation reference size into 110 specimens per kg. | |
b Member States may convert the minimum conservation reference size into 55 specimens per kg. | |
c CL — carapace length; TL — total length. | |
d This minimum conservation reference size shall not apply to fries of sardine landed for human consumption if caught by boat seines or shore seines and authorised in accordance with national provisions established in a management plan as referred to in Article 19 of Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006, provided that the stock of sardine concerned is within safe biological limits. | |
Species | Whole Area |
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Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) | 25 cm |
Annular sea bream (Diplodus annularis) | 12 cm |
Sharpsnout sea-bream (Diplodus puntazzo) | 18 cm |
White sea-bream (Diplodus sargus) | 23 cm |
Two-banded sea-bream (Diplodus vulgaris) | 18 cm |
European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) | 9 cma |
Groupers (Epinephelus spp.) | 45 cm |
Stripped sea-bream (Lithognathus mormyrus) | 20 cm |
Hake (Merluccius merluccius) | 20 cm |
Red mullets (Mullus spp.) | 11 cm |
Spanish sea-bream (Pagellus acarne) | 17 cm |
Red sea-bream (Pagellus bogaraveo) | 33 cm |
Common Pandora (Pagellus erythrinus) | 15 cm |
Common sea bream (Pagrus pagrus) | 18 cm |
Wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) | 45 cm |
European sardine (Sardina pilchardus) | 11 cmb,d |
Mackerel (Scomber spp.) | 18 cm |
Common sole (Solea vulgaris) | 20 cm |
Gilt-head sea-bream (Sparus aurata) | 20 cm |
Horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.) | 15 cm |
Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) | 20 mm CLc |
70 mm TLc | |
Lobster (Homarus gammarus) | 105 mm CLc |
300 mm TLc | |
Crawfish (Palinuridae) | 90 mm CLc |
Deepwater rose shrimp (Parapenaeus longirostris) | 20 mm CLc |
Scallop (Pecten jacobeus) | 10 cm |
Carpet Clams (Venerupis spp.) | 25 mm |
Venus shells (Venus spp.) | 25 mm |
The following mesh sizes shall apply in the Mediterranean Sea.
a It shall be prohibited to use netting with a twine thickness greater than 3 mm or with multiple twines; or netting with a twine thickness of greater than 6 mm in any part of a bottom trawl. | ||
b Only one type of net (either 40 mm square mesh or 50 mm diamond mesh) is allowed to be kept on board or deployed. | ||
Mesh Sizea | Geographical Areas | Conditions |
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At least 40 mm square mesh codendb | Whole area | A diamond mesh codend of 50 mm2 may be used as an alternative to the 40 mm square mesh cod end at the duly justified request of the vessel owner |
At least 20 mm | Whole area | Directed fishing for sardine and anchovy |
Mesh Size | Geographical Areas | Conditions |
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At least 14 mm | Whole area | None |
The following mesh sizes for bottom set gillnets shall apply in the Mediterranean Sea.
Mesh Size | Geographical Areas | Conditions |
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At least 16 mm | Whole area | None |
The maximum breadth of dredges shall be 3 m, except for dredges used for directed fishing of sponges.
The length of purse seines and seines without purse lines shall be restricted to 800 m with a drop of 120 m, except in the case of purse seines used for directed fishing of tuna.
A trammel net with a drop of more than 4 m;
A bottom set gillnet or combined trammel and gillnet with a drop of more than 10 m except when such nets are shorter than 500 m, where a drop of not more than 30 m is permitted.
2 500 hooks when directed fishing for swordfish; and
5 000 hooks when directed fishing for albacore tuna.
It shall be prohibited to have on board or set more than 250 pots or creels per vessel to catch deepwater crustaceans.
The directed fishing for red sea bream (Pagellus bogaraveo) with the following gear shall be prohibited:
gillnets, entangling nets or trammel nets having a mesh size of less than 100 mm;
longlines with hooks of a total length of less than 3,95 cm and a width of less than 1,65 cm.
It shall be prohibited to fish with spear guns if used in conjunction with underwater breathing apparatus (aqualung) or at night from sunset to dawn.
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