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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-13/annex/division-13/division-1/division-8",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2014/13",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 11 December 2013 confirming measures proposed by the United Kingdom for the protection of marine ecosystems in the areas of conservation Haisborough Hammond & Winterton; Start Point to Plymouth Sound & Eddystone, and Land's End & Cape Bank (notified under document C(2013) 9003) (Only the Dutch, English and French texts are authentic) (2014/13/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-13",
  "path": "annex/division/13/division/1/division/8",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Annex A: Notes of fishery statistics data extraction and tables",
  "text": "Data tables that summarise reported activity within the ICES rectangles that cover the detailed areas defined as the European marine site areas are detailed on the MMO website.\nThis level of detail reflects the finest level of detail available within the reported data available to UK fisheries administrations.\nThis data provides the information on the quantity and value of landings from the rectangles covering the areas, along with details of the vessels, gears used, and the species caught.\nIn addition to this fishing activity data, vessels over 15metres in length report their exact position every 2 hours as part of UK Vessel Monitoring Systems.\nFor these over 15metre vessels, it has been possible to combine the relatively coarse scale of spatial data from the activity reporting systems with the detailed position reports from the VMS systems to allow estimation of fishing activity at a finer scale. This detailed recasting of the activity data allows estimation of activity within the detailed EMS areas for over 15metre vessels.\nWhere available this detail is presented in the tables of data alongside the overall activity within the ICES rectangles, for the over 15metre vessels; the ratio between these two sets of data has then been applied to the data for other vessel lengths to provide approximate estimates of the activity within the proposed prohibited areas by these vessels less than 15metres overall length.\nPlease note that proposed prohibited areas are primarily within inshore waters, therefore using the proportion of activity carried out by over 15metre vessels within the areas to estimate activity of other UK vessels may be inaccurate as the larger vessels tend to fish further offshore than others, especially the over 10metre fleet.\nThis data is shaded grey in the tables to highlight that is it estimated data and should only be used with caution.\nThe following is a list of the coastal EMS areas covered by this analysis – some rectangles cover more than one area – these are highlighted in yellow.\nThis overlap means that the total potential coverage of the proposed prohibited areas cannot be estimated by summing the analyses for the individual areas. The table below includes details of the proportion of overall activity in the IECS rectangles involved for each proposed prohibited area that relates to vessels over 15metres (for these vessels the detailed satellite data is available).\nAs such, for those vessels with a high proportion of coverage of the EMS sites, the estimates for activity by other length bands based on VMS related activity are likely to be of greater reliability than for those sites with a low proportion of coverage.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "http://www.marinemanagement.org.uk/protecting/conservation/ems-consultation.htm"
    }
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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