CELEX: 51981PC0047
Language: en
Date: 1981-02-04
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) concerning, for certain fish stocks occuring in the Community fishing zone, the fixing of the total allowable catches for 1981 and the conditions for taking these catches together with the shares available to the Community (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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                    PROPOSAL FOR" A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
        concerning, for certain fish stocks occuring in the Community
        fishing zone, the fixing of the total allowable catches for
        1981 and the conditions for taking these catches together with
        the shares available to the Community
                  (presented by the Commission to the Council )
 COM ( 81 ) 47 final
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                        Amendment to the
             Proposal for a Council Regulation ( EEC )
     concerning , for certain fish stocks occurring in the
     Community fishing zone , the fixing of the total allowable
     catches for 1981 and the conditions for taking these catches
     together with the shares available to the Community .
The Annex to the Commission 's proposal ( 1 ) for a Council Regulation ( EEC )
concerning , for certain fish stocks occurring in the Community fishing
zone , the fixing of the total allowable catches for 1981 and the condi­
tions for taking these catches together with the shares available to the
Community , as amended ( 2 ), shall be further amended by the replacement
of the figures and footnotes set out in the Annex hereto for the species
concerned and by the deletion from the proposal of the entry for Sandeel
in ICES Divisions Ilia , IV .
( 1 ) C0MC80 ) 722 final of 13.11.1980
( 2 ) C0MC80 ) 881 final of 16.12.1980 ; C0MC81 ) 16 final of 21.1.1981 .
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                                        ANNEX
TACs by stock and by sector envisaged for 1981 - Proportions available to the
                                                        Community .
   Species         ICES- Di vision              TAC 1981            Proportions available to
                   or NAFO zone               ( in tonnes )         the Community for 1981
Cod                IIÏb,c,d                     120.000(xx )            86.500 ( xxx )
Cod                XIV                  »         8 ..000                8.000 ( 3 )
                                                          I
Haddock            VII                            3.800                  3.800
Herring            Illa North :
                                                 15.200                  6.300(7 ) ( 8 ) ( 9 )
                   Skagerrak
Herring            Ilia South :
                                                 37.800                 18.900(7 ) ( 8 )
                   Kattegat
Herring            IIIb,c,d                      31.800 ( xx )          27.800 ( 8 )
Herring            IV, VI Id                            0                     0(10 )
                   ( excl . Blackwater
                   stock )
Herring            IVc                                 60                    60
                   ( Blackwater stock )
                            if )
Herring            Via , incl . Donegal Bay ,           0                     0(11 )
                         excl . Clyde
Herring            Via Clyde stock < a )          2.000                  2.000(8 )
Herring            Vila ( b ) Mourne stock              0   ·                 0(11 )
                                                                                               ♦
           -                            <c)
Herring            Vila ( b)Manx stock ( d )      6-000                  6.000(8 ) ( 12 )
Herring            VI Ib , c ( Donegal Bay        ?. 000(+)'             7.000(8 )
                      excepted)
Herring            VIIe,f                               0                     0(11 )
Herring            VIIg-k ( e )                         0                     0(14 )
                 ( Bantry Bay excepted )
He r r i ng        Vllj                           6.000 (+)              6.000(8 )
                   Bantry Bay on*ly )
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    FOOTNOTES
  xx         Community zone only
  xxx       Plus 3Q.0QQt not yet allocated .
   (+)      Precaut ionary TAC
   ( a ) Maritime area situated to the north-east of a Line drawn between the Mull
         of Kintyre and Corsewall Point .
   ( b ) ICES zone Vila ) is reduced by the zone added to the Celtic Sea bounded :
         - to the north by latitude 52°30'N ,
         - to the south by latitude 52°00'N ,
         - to the west by the coast of Ireland ,
         - to the east by the coast of the United Kingdom .
  ( c ) Fishing prohibited within 12 miles zone from the base-lines off the east coast
         of Ireland and Northern Ireland between 53°00'N between 53°00N and 55°00'N
         throughout the whole year .
  ( d ) Reference is to the herring stock in the Irish Sea ( ICES zone Vila ) excluding
         the zones referred to in footnotes ( b ) and ( c ).
  ( e ) Increased by zone bounded :
         - to the north by latitude      52°30'N ,
         - to the south by latitude      52°00'N ,
         - to the west by the coast      of Ireland ,
         - to the east by the coast      of the United Kingdom .
  ( f ) Maritime region of the Thames estuary between Felixstowe and North Foreland
         within 6 miles from the U.K. baselines .
  ( 3 ) By-catches of cod from this zone shall not exceed 10% by weight of catches
         of redfish by vessels which are trawling , 10% by weight of catches of
         halibut and Greenland halibut by vessels which are longlining and 3% by
         weight of other fish for which a TAC has been proposed . By-catches will
         be measured according to the provisions of Article 10 of Council Regulation
         ( EEC ) No . 2527 / 80 but may not be measured until at least 48 hours after a
         vessel has started fishing in Greenland waters .
         When the proportion available to the Community is exhausted , no further by-
         catches may be landed . However , if quotas are adopted for 1981 , by-catches
         may be landed only within the quotas .
  ( 7 ) Trawling and purse seining is prohibited in the Skagerrak from Saturday mid­
         night to Sunday midnight and in the Kattegat from Friday midnight to Sunday
         midnight .
  ( 8 ) By-catches of herring shall not exceed 10% by weight of the catches of sprat
         and 5% by weight of the catches of other species .
         When the proportion available to the Community is exhausted , no further
         by-catches may be landed . However , if quotas are adopted for 1981 , by-catches
         may be landed only within the quotas .
  ( 9 ) Fishing for herring is forbidden in the Skagerrak from 1 January, to 31 March
         1981 and from 1 October to 31 December 1981 .
( 10 ) By-catches of herring shall be prohibited , except that in the fishery for
         mackerel and sprat the by-catches of herring shall not exceed 3% by weight
         of the catches of these species .
( 11 ) By-catches of herring shall be prohibited, except that in the fi "iery for
         mackerel and sprat the by-catches of herring shall not exceed 5% by weight
         of the catches of these species .
                                                                                        ./.
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( 12 ) Fishing for herring is forbidden in the Irish Sea ( ICES division Vila )
       throughout the whole year within 12 miles of the coasts of England , Scotland
       and Wales between latitudes 53°20'N and 55°OQ'N and from 22 September to
       1$ November 1981 In that part of th » Ir+oh Sea ( ICES Vila ) north ef latitude
       52 σ 30 Ν .
( 14 ) Ireland is authorized to carry out directed fishing for herring up to
       1.000 tonnes by boats based in ports adjacent to this area , provided that
       the only method of fishing allowed is drift netting with nets the size of
       which is not less than 54 mm , stretched mesh , and subject to a licencing
       scheme to be approved by the Commission ."
       By-catches of herring shall be prohibited ( see Art . 8 paragraph 4 of
       Council Regulation No . 2527 / 80 ).