Council Regulation (EC) No 2549/2000 of 17 November 2000 establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stock of cod in the Irish Sea (ICES Division VIIa)
Date: 2000-11-17
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Irish Sea, catch by species, catch quota, conservation of fish stocks, fishing controls, fishing net, sea fish, sea fishing

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2549/2000

of 17 November 2000

establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stock of cod in the Irish Sea
(ICES Division VIIa)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community and in particular Article 37 thereof,

Article 1

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The stock of mature cod in the Irish Sea is currently
depleted and urgent and temporary technical measures
for fishing in the Irish Sea have been laid down in
Commission Regulation (EC) No 304/2000 of 9
February 2000 establishing measures for the recovery of
the stock of cod in the Irish Sea (ICES Division VII a) (3).

Greater protection of juvenile cod in the Irish Sea is
required so that more juveniles survive to become
adults.

Additional technical measures intended to ensure the
survival of juvenile cod are required within the Irish Sea.

Also, conditions defined in footnote 6 of Annex I of
Council Regulation (EC) No 850/98 of 30 March 1998
for the conservation of fishery resources through tech-
nical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine
organisms (4) currently allow, during 2000,
relaxed
percentage by-catch conditions to prevail for various
fishing gears both within and in waters adjacent to the
Irish Sea (ICES Division VIIa). The application of these
conditions during 2000 is not desirable. The aforemen-
tioned footnote 6 therefore should not be applicable in
the Irish Sea,

(1) OJ C 248 E, 29.8.2000, p. 120.
(2) Opinion of 10 October 2000 (not yet published in the Official

Journal).

(3) OJ L 35, 10.2.2000, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 125, 27.4.1998, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regula-

This Regulation lays down technical measures additional to
those defined in Regulation (EC) No 850/98 which shall apply
exclusively to the Irish Sea (ICES Division VIIa as defined in
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3880/91 of 17 December 1991
on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States
fishing in the north-east Atlantic) (5).

Article 2

When fishing in the Irish Sea, it shall be prohibited to use:

1. any demersal towed net other than beam trawls incorpor-
ating a cod-end and/or extension piece made entirely or
partly of multiple-twine netting materials;

2. any demersal towed net other than beam trawls incorpor-
ating a cod-end and/or extension piece of which the thick-
ness of the twine exceeds 6 mm;

3. any demersal towed net other than beam trawls incorpor-
ating a cod-end of mesh size range 70 to 79 mm or of
mesh size range 80 to 89 mm having more than 120
meshes in any circumference of said cod-end excluding the
joinings and selvedges;

4. any demersal towed net which includes any individual quad-
rilateral mesh of which the bars of the mesh are not of
approximately equal

length;

5. any demersal towed net other than beam trawls of mesh
size range 70 to 79 mm or of mesh size range 80 to
99 mm unless the entire upper half of the anterior part of
such a net consists of a panel of netting material attached
directly to the headline of the net, extending towards the
posterior of the net for at least 15 meshes and constructed
of diamond-meshed netting material of which no individual
mesh is of mesh size less than 140 mm;

tion (EC) No 1298/2000 (OJ L 148, 22.6.2000, p. 1).

(5) OJ L 365, 31.12.1991, p. 1.

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6. any beam trawl of mesh size range 70 to 79 mm or of
mesh size range 80 to 99 mm unless the entire upper half
of the anterior part of such a net consists of a panel of
netting material attached directly to the headline of the net,
extending towards the posterior of the net for at least 30
and constructed of diamond-meshed netting
meshes
material of which no individual mesh is of mesh size less
than 180 mm;

8. any demersal towed net to which a cod-end of mesh size
less than 100 mm is attached by any means other than
being sewn into the net, anterior to the cod-end.

Article 3

Footnote 6 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 850/98 shall not
apply to ICES Division VII a.

7. any demersal towed net other than beam trawls of mesh
size range 80 to 99 mm unless a square-meshed panel of
mesh size of at least 80 mm is included in such a net, in
accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 7 of
Regulation (EC) No 850/98;

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

The conditions of Article 2 shall apply from 1 January 2001.

Article 4

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 17 November 2000.

For the Council

The President

J. GLAVANY