Council Regulation (EC) No 724/2001 of 4 April 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 850/98 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms
Date: 2001-04-04
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: conservation of fish stocks, fishery resources, fishing area, fishing regulations, protection of animal life

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 724/2001

of 4 April 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 850/98 for the conservation of fishery resources through technical
measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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

selvedges shall be prohibited. This provision shall
apply to demersal trawls, Danish seines or similar
towed nets of which the mesh size lies within the
range 90 to 119 millimetres.’;

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

4.

in Article 7,

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

(a) paragraph 4 shall be replaced by:

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (3),

Whereas:

For the effective performance of various types of fishing
activity and for the conservation of fishery resources,
certain conditions established in Regulation (EC) No
850/98 (4) should be clarified or corrected.

(1)

(2)

Notwithstanding paragraph 1(a), any demersal
‘4.
trawl, Danish seine or similar towed net of which the
mesh size lies in the range 70 to 79 millimetres shall
be equipped with a square-meshed panel having a
mesh size equal to, or greater than, 80 millimetres.’;

(b) the following text shall be added to the end of para-

graph 5:

Regulation (EC) No 850/98 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

‘or with a sorting grid whose use is established under
the conditions laid down in Article 46.’;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

‘Article 10

5. Article 10 shall be replaced by:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 850/98 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 4(4)(b) shall be replaced by:

‘(b) For each fishing voyage, during which only towed nets
of one range of mesh size are used, landings shall be
prohibited whenever the catch taken in each of the
regions or geographical areas mentioned in Annexes I
to V, and retained on board, does not comply with the
corresponding conditions laid down in the relevant
annex.’;

2. Article 5(5) shall be deleted;

3. Article 6(1)(a) shall be replaced by:

‘1. (a) The carrying on board or the use of any demersal
trawl, Danish seine or similar towed net having
more than 100 meshes in any circumference of the
cod-end stricto sensu, excluding the joinings and

(1) OJ C 365 E, 19.12.2000, p. 264.
(2) Opinion delivered on 1 March 2001 (not yet published in the Offi-

cial Journal).

(3) Opinion delivered on 20 December 2000 (not yet published in the

Official Journal).

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

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

Dredges are exempted from the provisions of Article 4.
However, it shall be prohibited during any voyage when
dredges are carried on board,

(a) to tranship marine organisms and

(b) to retain on board or land any quantity of marine
thereof

least 95 % by weight

organisms unless at
consists of bivalve molluscs.’;

6. Article 18(4) shall be replaced by:

‘4. (a) For catches of edible crabs made by pots or creels,
a maximum of 1 % by weight of the total catch of
edible crabs or parts thereof retained on board
during any fishing voyage or landed at the end of
any fishing voyage may consist of detached crab
claws.

(b) For catches of edible crabs made by any fishing
gear other than pots or creels, a maximum of
75 kg of detached crab claws may be retained on
board at any moment in time during a fishing
voyage or may be landed at the end of any fishing
voyage.’;

7.

in Article 22(3), the last subparagraph shall be deleted;

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8.

in Article 28:

(a) paragraph 1(a) shall be replaced by:

‘(a) from 1 October to 31 January of the following
year, within the geographical area bounded by a
line sequentially joining the following coordinates:
— latitude 43°46,5(cid:1) N,
— latitude 44°1,5(cid:1) N,
— latitude 43°25(cid:1) N,
— latitude 43°10(cid:1) N,

longitude 7°54,4(cid:1) W,
longitude 9°12(cid:1) W,
longitude 9°12(cid:1) W’;

longitude 7°54,4(cid:1) W,

(b) paragraph 1(b) shall be deleted;

9. the title of Article 29 shall be replaced by ‘Conditions

applicable in a major plaice nursery area’;

10. Annex VI shall be replaced by the text in Annex I to this

Regulation;

11.

in Annex X:

(a) point 1 shall be replaced by:

‘1. Mesh size
≥ 100 mm

combination: 16 to 31 mm +

The catch retained on board shall consist of at least
20 % of any mixture of shrimps and common
prawns
and
Palaemon spp.).’;

(Pandalus montagui, Crangon spp.

— a footnote shall be associated with the reference to
minimum size of 15 cm for horse mackerel (Trachurus
spp.) in Regions 1 to 5, except Skagerrak and Kattegat,
which shall read:

‘No minimum size will apply to horse mackerel
(Trachurus picturatus) caught in waters adjacent to the
Azores islands and under the sovereignty or jurisdic-
tion of Portugal.’,

— the entry ‘Surf clams (Spisula solidissima)’ shall be

replaced by ‘Surf clams (Spisula solida)’, and

— the minimum size of crawfish (Palinurus spp.)

in
Regions 1 to 5 except the Skagerrak and Kattegat shall
be 95 mm,

— for the species Edible crab (Cancer pagurus) the entry
‘ICES Divisions IVb, c south of 56 °N: 115 mm’ shall
be replaced by ‘ICES Divisions IVb, c south of 56 °N:
130 mm, except for an area limited by a point at
53°28(cid:1)22(cid:3) N, 0°09(cid:1)24(cid:3) E, on the coast of England, a
line joining this point with 53°28(cid:1)22(cid:3) N,
straight
0°22(cid:1)24(cid:3) E,
the United
the 6 mile boundary of
Kingdom, and a straight line connecting a point at
51°54(cid:1)06(cid:3) N, 1°30(cid:1)30(cid:3) E, with a point on the coast of
England at 51°55(cid:1)48(cid:3) N, 1°17(cid:1)00(cid:3) E, where the
minimum landing size shall be 115 mm’;

13.

in Annex XIII:

— in point 3, the words ‘or crawfish’ shall be deleted,

(b) point 4 shall be replaced by:

— a new point shall be added:

‘4. Mesh size
≥ 100 mm

combination: 80 to 99 mm +

The catch retained on board shall consist of at least
45 % of any mixture of those marine organisms
indicated in Annex I as the target species for mesh
sizes between 80 and 99 mm.’;

‘8. The size of a crawfish shall be measured as shown
in Figure 7 as the length of the carapace from the
tip of the rostrum to the midpoint of the distal
edge of the carapace.’,

— the figure in Annex II
inserted as Figure 7.

to this Regulation shall be

12.

in Annex XII:

Article 2

— the minimum size of plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)

in
Regions 1 to 5 except the Skagerrak and Kattegat shall
be 27 cm,

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

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

Done at Luxembourg, 4 April 2001.

For the Council

The President

B. ROSENGREN

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ANNEX I

‘ANNEX VI

FIXED GEARS: Regions 1 and 2

Mesh

10-30 mm

50-70 mm

90-99 mm

100-119 mm

120-219 mm

≥ 220 mm

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Species

Sardine (Sardina pilchardus)

Eel (Anguilla anguilla)

Sprat (Sprattus sprattus)

Horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.)

Herring (Clupea harengus)

Mackerel (Scomber spp.)

Red mullets (Mullidae)

Garfish (Belone spp.)

Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

Grey mullets (Mugilidae)

Lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula)

Dab (Limanda limanda)

Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

Whiting (Merlangius merlangus) (2)

Flounder (Platichthys flesus)

Sole (Solea vulgaris)

Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)

Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)

Cod (Gadus morhua)

Pollack (Pollachius pollachius) (3)

Ling (Molva molva)

Saithe (Pollachius virens)

Hake (Merluccius merluccius) (3)

Picked dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

Greater spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus stellaris)

Megrim (Lepidorhombus spp.)

Lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus)

All other marine organisms

(1) Applicable only in ICES Divisions VIId and IIIa and in the North Sea.
(2) In ICES division VIIe the minimum size shall be 90 mm.
(3) In ICES divisions VIId and VIIe the minimum size shall be 110 mm.
(4) Catches of anglerfish (Lophius spp.) taken ICES Sub-areas VI and VII and retained on board in excess of 30 % of the total catch on board from those areas must be taken

with a minimum mesh size of 250 mm or greater.’

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ANNEX II