{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-45/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-45/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2018/45",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/45 of 20 October 2017 establishing a discard plan for certain demersal fisheries in the North Sea and in Union waters of ICES Division IIa for the year 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-45",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Specific technical measures in the Skagerrak",
  "text": "1. The carrying on board or the use of any trawl, Danish seine, beam trawl or similar towed net having a mesh size of less than 120 mm shall be prohibited in the Skagerrak.\n2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the following trawls may be used:\n(a) trawls with a cod end of a mesh size of at least 90 mm, provided they are equipped with a seltra panel or a sorting grid with no more than 35 mm bar spacing;\n(b) trawls with a cod end of at least 70 mm mesh size (square mesh) equipped with a sorting grid with no more than 35 mm bar spacing;\n(c) trawls of minimum mesh sizes of less than 70 mm when fishing for pelagic or industrial species, provided the catch contains more than 80 % of one or more pelagic or industrial species;\n(d) trawls with a cod end of at least 35 mm mesh size when fishing for Northern prawn, provided the trawl is equipped with a sorting grid with a maximum bar spacing of 19 mm.\n3. A fish retention device may be used when fishing for Northern prawn in accordance with paragraph 2(d), provided there are adequate fishing opportunities to cover by-catch and that the retention device is:\n(a) constructed with a top panel of a minimum mesh size of 120 mm square mesh;\n(b) at least 3 metres long; and\n(c) at least as wide as the width of the sorting grid.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/45/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:19.099580+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."
}