Division 3 The spatial units for metier sampling are defined by level 3 of Appendix I for all the regions with the following exceptions:
United Kingdom
- (a)
the Baltic Sea (ICES areas III b-d), Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea where the resolution shall be level 4;
- (b)
Regional Fisheries Management Organisations units, providing they are metier-based (in the absence of such definitions, Regional Fisheries Management Organisations shall proceed to appropriate mergers).