# Commission Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 of 19 March 2002 establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stock of hake in ICES sub-areas III, IV, V, VI and VII and ICES divisions VIII a, b, d, e, Article 3

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

It shall be prohibited to use:
(a) except in ICES sub-areas V and VI, any cod-end and/or extension piece of any towed net except beam trawls of mesh size greater than 55 mm which is not constructed of single-twine netting material of which no twine is of thickness greater than 6 mm or of double-twine netting material of which no twine is of thickness greater than 4 mm;
(b) any demersal towed net other than beam trawl incorporating a cod-end of mesh size range 70 to 89 mm having more than 120 meshes in any circumference of the said cod-end excluding the joinings and selvages;
(c) any demersal towed net which includes any individual quadrilateral mesh of which the bars of the mesh are not of approximately equal length;
(d) any demersal towed net to which a cod-end of mesh size less than 100 mm is attached by any means other than being sewn into that part of the net anterior to the cod-end.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/494/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-494/article-3
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