Appendix 3 to Annex III Towed Gears: Skagerrak and Kattegat

United Kingdom

Species	Mesh size range (millimetres)
Only within four miles from the baselines.
Outside four miles from the baselines.
From 1 March to 31 October in Skagerrak and from 1 March to 31 July in Kattegat.
From 1 November to the last day of February in Skagerrak and from 1 August to the last day of February in Kattegat.
When applying this mesh size range the codend and the extension piece shall be constructed of square meshed netting with a sorting grid.
The catch retained on board shall consist of no more than 10 % of any mixture of cod, haddock, hake, plaice, witch, lemon sole, sole, turbot, brill, flounder, mackerel, megrim, whiting, dab, saithe, Norway lobster and lobster.
The catch retained on board shall consist of no more than 50 % of any mixture of cod, haddock, hake, plaice, witch, lemon sole, sole, turbot, brill, flounder, herring, mackerel, megrim, whiting, dab, saithe, Norway lobster and lobster.
The catch retained on board shall consist of no more than 60 % of any mixture of cod, haddock, hake, plaice, witch, lemon sole, sole, turbot, brill, flounder, megrim, whiting, dab, saithe and lobster.
	< 16	16-31		32-69		35-69	70-89^f1	≥ 90
	Minimum percentage of target species
	50 %^f2	50 %	20 %	50 %	20 %	20 %^f3	30 %^f4	none
Sandeel (Ammodytidae)^f5	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Sandeel (Ammodytidae)^f6		x		x	x	x	x	x
Norway pout (Trisopterus esmarkii)		x		x	x	x	x	x
Blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou)		x		x	x	x	x	x
Greater weever (Trachinus draco)^f7		x		x	x	x	x	x
Molluscs (except Sepia)		x		x	x	x	x	x
Garfish (Belone belone)		x		x	x	x	x	x
Gray gurnard (Eutrigla gurnardus)		x		x	x	x	x	x
Argentine (Argentina spp.)				x	x	x	x	x
Sprat (Sprattus sprattus)		x		x	x	x	x	x
Eel (Anguilla, anguilla)			x	x	x	x	x	x
Common shrimp/Baltic shrimp (Crangon spp., Palaemon adspersus)^f8			x	x	x	x	x	x
Mackerel (Scomber spp.)				x			x	x
Horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.)				x			x	x
Herring (Clupea harengus)				x			x	x
Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis)						x	x	x
Common shrimp/Baltic shrimp (Crangon spp. Palaemon adspersus)					x		x	x
Whiting (Merlangius merlangus)							x	x
Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus)							x	x
All other marine organisms								x

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: When applying this mesh size range the codend and the extension piece shall be constructed of square meshed netting with a sorting grid.
f2: The catch retained on board shall consist of no more than 10 % of any mixture of cod, haddock, hake, plaice, witch, lemon sole, sole, turbot, brill, flounder, mackerel, megrim, whiting, dab, saithe, Norway lobster and lobster.
f3: The catch retained on board shall consist of no more than 50 % of any mixture of cod, haddock, hake, plaice, witch, lemon sole, sole, turbot, brill, flounder, herring, mackerel, megrim, whiting, dab, saithe, Norway lobster and lobster.
f4: The catch retained on board shall consist of no more than 60 % of any mixture of cod, haddock, hake, plaice, witch, lemon sole, sole, turbot, brill, flounder, megrim, whiting, dab, saithe and lobster.
f5: From 1 March to 31 October in Skagerrak and from 1 March to 31 July in Kattegat.
f6: From 1 November to the last day of February in Skagerrak and from 1 August to the last day of February in Kattegat.
f7: Only within four miles from the baselines.
f8: Outside four miles from the baselines.