Appendix ‘ANNEX III

United Kingdom

Maximum number of fishing authorisations for Union vessels fishing in third-country waters

Area of fishing	Fishery	Number of fishing authorisations	Allocation of fishing authorisations amongst Member States	Maximum number of vessels present at any time
Without prejudice to additional licences granted to Sweden by Norway in accordance with established practice.
Following the Agreed Record of 1999, the figures for the directed fishing for cod and haddock are included in the figures for “All trawl fisheries with vessels of not more than 180 feet in the zone between 12 and 21 miles from the Faroese baselines”.
These figures refer to the maximum number of vessels present at any time.
These figures are included in the figures for “Trawl fisheries outside 21 miles from the Faroese baselines”.
Norwegian waters and fishery zone around Jan Mayen	Herring, north of 62° 00′ N	77	DK: 25 DE: 5 FR: 1 IE: 8 NL: 9 PL: 1 SV: 10 UK: 18	57
	Demersal species, north of 62° 00′ N	80	DE: 16 IE: 1 ES: 20 FR: 18 PT: 9 UK: 14 Unallocated: 2	50
	Mackerel	Not relevant	Not relevant	70^f1
	Industrial species, south of 62° 00′ N	480	DK: 450 UK: 30	150
Faroese waters	All trawl fisheries with vessels of not more than 180 feet in the zone between 12 and 21 miles from the Faroese baselines	26	BE: 0 DE: 4 FR: 4 UK: 18	13
	Directed fisheries for cod and haddock with a minimum mesh of 135 mm, restricted to the area south of 62° 28′ N and east of 6° 30′ W	8^f2	Not relevant	4
	Trawl fisheries outside 21 miles from the Faroese baseline. In the periods from 1 March to 31 May and from 1 October to 31 December, these vessels may operate in the area between 61° 20′ N and 62° 00′ N and between 12 and 21 miles from the baselines	70	BE: 0 DE: 10 FR: 40 UK: 20	26
	Trawl fisheries for blue ling with a minimum mesh of 100 mm in the area south of 61° 30′ N and west of 9° 00′ W and in the area between 7° 00′ W and 9° 00′ W south of 60° 30′ N and in the area south-west of a line between 60° 30′ N, 7° 00′ W and 60° 00′ N, 6° 00′ W	70	DE: 8^f3 FR: 12 UK: 0	20^f4
	Directed trawl fisheries for saithe with a minimum mesh size of 120 mm and with the possibility to use round-straps around the codend	70	Not relevant	22
	Fisheries for blue whiting. The total number of fishing authorisations may be increased by four vessels to form pairs, should the Faroese authorities introduce special rules of access to an area called “main fishing area of blue whiting”	34	DE: 3 DK: 19 FR: 2 NL: 5 UK: 5	20
	Line fisheries	10	UK: 10	6
	Mackerel	12	DK: 12	12
	Herring, north of 61° N	21	DK: 7 DE: 1 IE: 2 FR: 0 NL: 3 SV: 3 UK: 5	21’

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Footnotes

f1: Without prejudice to additional licences granted to Sweden by Norway in accordance with established practice.
f2: Following the Agreed Record of 1999, the figures for the directed fishing for cod and haddock are included in the figures for “All trawl fisheries with vessels of not more than 180 feet in the zone between 12 and 21 miles from the Faroese baselines”.
f3: These figures refer to the maximum number of vessels present at any time.
f4: These figures are included in the figures for “Trawl fisheries outside 21 miles from the Faroese baselines”.