CELEX: 31977R1779
Language: en
Date: 1977-08-02 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1779/77 of 2 August 1977 laying down interim conservation and management measures for herring fishing in the Irish Sea

No L 196/4                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   3 . 8 . 77
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1779/77
                                                       of 2 August 1977
               laying down interim conservation and management measures for herring
                                                   fishing in the Irish Sea
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       (Calf of Man), thence running clockwise round the
COMMUNITIES,                                                      Isle of Man (at a distance of 12 miles from the base­
                                                                  lines) as far as Point of Ayre (Isle of Man), then east­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             ward to St Bees Head (United Kingdom).
Economic Community, and in particular Article 103
thereof,
                                                                                            Article 2
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas, in the interests of a coherent conservation              1 . Without prejudice to Article 1 of this Regulation
and management policy, appropriate measures must                  and Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1672/77, the
be adopted for all herring stocks ; whereas measures              catch quotas allocated to each Member State on an
complementary to those laid down for herring fishing              annual basis for the direct fishing of herring in Divi­
in the Irish Sea in Council Regulation (EEC) No                   sion VII (a) (4) of the Irish Sea (as defined by the Inter­
1672/77 of 25 July 1977 laying down interim                       national Council for the Exploration of the Sea) shall
                                                                  be as follows for 1977 :
measures for the conservation and management of
certain herring stocks should therefore be adopted (') ;                France                                190  tonnes
                                                                        Ireland                             1 000  tonnes
Whereas the measures in question must be taken                          Netherlands                           1 10 tonnes
without delay in view of the risks which the current
over-exploitation of fishery resources holds for                        United Kingdom                    1 1 900  tonnes
Community supplies of certain species ; whereas as an
interim step measures complementary to those laid                 2. Herring catches made in the zone referred to in
down in Regulation (EEC) No 350/77 (2), as last                   paragraph 1 during the period from 1 January 1977
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1417/77 (3), and in                until the entry into force of this Regulation shall be
Regulation (EEC) No 1672/77 should be adopted on                  counted against the quotas fixed under that paragraph.
the basis of Article 103 of the Treaty, subject to their
being included at a later date in the common agricul­
tural policy ;                                                                              Article 3
Whereas Article 227 (5) (c) of the Treaty and Protocol            The Member States shall be authorized to catch
3 of the Act of Accession lay down the conditions                 herring as by-catches in the course of direct fishing
under which the Treaty applies to the Isle of Man in              for other species in the zone referred to in Article 2
particular,                                                       up to a limit of 10 % by weight of catches of sprat
                                                                  and 5 % by weight of catches of Norwegian pout, of
                                                                  sand eels and other species during each voyage.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
                                                                  Such by-catches shall be counted against the quotas
                                                                  allocated to each Member State for that zone.
                          Article 1
 Direct fishing for herring shall be prohibited for                                         Article 4
 Community fishermen from 1 October to 19
 November 1977 in the part of Division VII (a) (as
 defined by the International Council for the Explora­            The Member States shall take, as far as is possible, all
 tion of the Sea) surrounding the Isle of Man and in               necessary steps to ensure compliance with the provi­
 that between the Isle of Man and the west coast of the           sions of this Regulation within the maritime waters
 United Kingdom .                                                 under their sovereignty or jurisdiction, and covered by
                                                                  the Community rules on fisheries.
 rhis zone shall be delimited by a line running from
 Carmel Head (Anglesey) to the Chicken Rock Light                 (4) Except for the part bounded :
                                                                      — on the north by latitude 52° 30' North,
;>) OJ No L 186, 26. 7. 1977, p. 27.                                  — on the south by latitude 52° 00' North,
(2) OJ No L 48 , 19 . 2. 1977, p. 28 .                                — on the west by the Irish coast,
(3) OJ No L 160, 30. 6. 1977, p. 20.                                  — on the east by the coast of the United Kingdom.
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The checks carried out by the Member States shall be                                 Article 5
reported at regular intervals to the Commission.            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
                                                            following its publication in the Official Journal of
                                                             the European Communities.
                                                            It shall apply until the entry into force of the Commu­
In each case they shall mention the type and the            nity rules for the conservation and management of
nationality of the vessel, any infringements recorded,      fishery resources or, at the latest, until 31 December
and measures taken as a result.                              1977.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 2 August 1977.
                                                                        For the Council
                                                                          The President
                                                                          H. SIMONET