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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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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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