Article 12 Sieve netting

A sieve netting is a piece of netting with a mesh size which must be at least twice the mesh size of the codend.

The sieve netting shall be attached inside the trawl in front of the codend and shall not extend into the codend by more than one-third of the length of the codend.

It may be attached to the trawl at all edges.

Up to two pieces of sieve netting may be used at the same time, provided that these are attached to the upper half and lower half of the trawl respectively and do not overlap at any point.