Article 14 ‘Torquette’
United Kingdom
1.
A ‘torquette’ is a piece of netting fixed inside the codend at its rear end. The ‘torquette’ may be folded back into the codend.
2.
The mesh size shall not be less than the mesh size of the codend.
3.
The ‘torquette’ shall be attached at its forward edge only and no further forward than the last five meshes of the codend and shall not extend backwards more than 1 metre from the rear of the last meshes of the codend.