{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-44/annex/division-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-44/annex/division-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2018/44",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/44 of 20 October 2017 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/2374 establishing a discard plan for certain demersal fisheries in South-Western waters",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-44",
  "path": "annex/division/3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Hake (Merluccius merluccius) fisheries",
  "text": "Reference period for the year 2017. For 2018 the reference period shall be 2015/2016 and for 2019 the reference period shall be 2016/2017.\nFishing zones\nGear Code\nFishing gear description\nMesh Size\nSpecies to be landed\nICES divisions VIIIa, b, d and e\nOTT, OTB, PTB, SDN, OT, PT, TBN, TBS, TX, SSC, SPR, TB, SX, SV\nAll Bottom Trawls & Seines\nMesh size larger or equal to 100 mm wide\nAll catches of hake\nLL, LLS\nAll Long lines\nAll\nGNS, GN, GND, GNC, GTN, GEN\nAll Gill Nets\nMesh size larger or equal to 100 mm wide\nICES divisions VIIIc and IXa\nOTT, OTB, PTB, OT, PT, TBN, TBS, TX, SSC, SPR, TB, SDN, SX, SV\nAll Bottom Trawls and Seines\nVessels which fulfil the following cumulative criteria:\n1.. Use mesh size larger or equal to 70 mm\n2.. Total hake landings in the period 2014/2015 consist of: more than 5 % of all landed species and more than 5 metric tons.\nAll catches of hake\nGNS, GN, GND, GNC, GTN, GEN\nAll Gill Nets\nMesh size between 80 and 99 mm wide\nLL, LLS\nAll Long lines\nHook size bigger than 3,85 cm +/– 1,15 cm length and 1,6 cm +/– 0,4 cm width",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Reference period for the year 2017. For 2018 the reference period shall be 2015/2016 and for 2019 the reference period shall be 2016/2017."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/44/annex/division/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:19.125456+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}