# Regulation (EU) 2018/973 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2018 establishing a multiannual plan for demersal stocks in the North Sea and the fisheries exploiting those stocks, specifying details of the implementation of the landing obligation in the North Sea and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 676/2007 and (EC) No 1342/2008, Article 10: Fishing opportunities

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

1. When a fisheries administration distributes fishing opportunities for use by fishing vessels it must take account of the likely catch composition of fishing vessels participating in mixed fisheries.
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3. Without prejudice to Article 7 of this Regulation, the TAC for the stock of Norway lobster in ICES zones 2a and 4 may be the sum of the catch limits of the functional units and of the statistical rectangles outside the functional units.
4. When scientific advice indicates that recreational fisheries have a significant impact on the fishing mortality of a particular stock, any person determining fishing opportunities shall take them into account and may limit recreational fisheries ... in order to avoid exceeding the total target of fishing mortality.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/973/article/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-973/article-10
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