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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-regulations-2018/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/849",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "... Fisheries conservation measures",
  "text": "Provision\nSubject matter\nCommission Regulation (EEC) No 3440/84 on the attachment of devices to trawls, Danish seines and similar nets\nArticles 4 to 15\nRestrictions on the use of devices attached to nets\nCommission Regulation (EC) No 2056/2001 establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of stocks of cod in the North Sea and to the west of the coast of Scotland\nArticle 4\nRequirements relating to demersal towed nets and to catch composition\nArticle 5\nProhibition of the use of certain demersal towed nets and the carrying on board and use of certain beam trawls\nArticle 6\nProhibition of the use of certain beam trawls in specified areas\nArticle 7\nProhibition of the retention on board of cod in excess of a specified percentage by weight and caught by specified fixed gear\nArticle 8\nProhibition of the use of certain demersal towed nets in specified areas\nArticle 9a\nRequirements on the landing of catches\nCommission Regulation (EC) No 494/2002 establishing additional technical measures for the recovery of the stock of hake in ICES sub-areas III, IV, V, VI, and VII and ICES divisions VIII a, b, d, e\nArticle 2\nProhibition on the retention on board of hake in excess of specified percentages of the total catch\nArticle 3\nProhibition of the use of certain towed nets within specified areas, and prohibition of the use of certain other towed nets\nArticle 4\nProhibition of the use of certain beam trawls within specified areas\nCouncil Regulation (EC) No 1185/2003 on the removal of fins of sharks on board vessels\nArticle 3\nProhibition of the removal or retention on board, or transhipment, landing, purchase, offer for sale or sale of shark fins\nCouncil Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 establishing a Union control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy\nArticle 8\nRestrictions on the marking of fishing gears\nArticle 20\nProhibition of transhipment at sea\n. . .\n. . .\nArticle 44\nRequirements on the stowage of demersal catches subject to multiannual plans\nArticle 47\nRestrictions on carriage of fishing gear of multiple types\nArticle 48\nRequirements relating to the retrieval of fishing gear lost at sea\nArticle 49a\nRequirements on the stowage of catches below the minimum conservation reference size\nArticle 49c\nRequirements on the landing of catches below the minimum conservation reference size\nArticle 54a\nProhibition of the processing on board, or transhipment for processing, of fish (except for the processing or transhipment of offal or the production of surimi) to produce fish-meal, fish-oil, or similar products\nRegulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Common Fisheries Policy\nArticle 15(12)\nProhibition on retaining catches of species not subject to the landing obligation in Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 which are below the minimum conservation reference size\nRegulation (EU) 2016/1627 of the European Parliament and of the Council on a multiannual recovery plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean\nArticle 19B(1), (4), (5) and (6)\nProhibition on recreational fishing boats fishing for bluefin tuna without a permit and treatment of fish caught.\nProhibition on shore-based fishing for bluefin tuna.\nArticle 19(1)\nProhibition of sport and recreational fishing of bluefin tuna without an authorisation ...\nCouncil Regulation (EU) 2020/123 fixing for 2020 the fishing opportunities for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Union waters and, for Union fishing vessels, in certain non-Union waters\nArticle 10(1), (2) and (3)\nProhibition in specified waters of the fishing (including by commercial fisheries from shore) for European sea bass and of the retention, transhipment, relocation or landing of European sea bass caught in certain areas, subject to derogations setting catch limits in specified waters for certain fishing vessels with previously recorded catches of European sea bass using specified gear\nArticle 10(5)\nRestrictions in specified waters on the recreational fishing (including from shore) of European sea bass and the prohibition of the retention, relocation, transhipment or landing of European sea bass caught in certain areas\nRegulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures\nArticle 7\nProhibition of the use of specified gear and fishing methods\nArticle 8(2)\nProhibition of the transhipment, and restrictions on the retention on board or landing, of marine organisms when dredges are carried on board\nArticle 8(3)\nRequirements relating to the mesh sizes of towed gear where more than one net is towed simultaneously by one or more fishing vessels\nArticle 8(4)\nProhibition of the use of devices (other than specified devices) that obstruct or diminish the mesh size of the codend or any part of a towed gear, or the carrying on board of devices specifically designed for that purpose\nArticle 9(1), (2) and (4)\nRestrictions on the use of static nets and driftnets\nArticle 10(1) and (2)\nProhibition of the catching, retention on board, transhipment, landing, storage, sale, display or offer for sale of specified fish and shellfish species\nArticle 13(4)\nRequirements relating to the retention on board and landing whole of specified species for which a minimum conservation reference size is established in Annexes 5, 6 or 7",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. heading omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Fisheries (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/746), regs. 1, 14(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. Table substituted (21.10.2019) by The Sea Fishing (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1284), reg. 1, Sch. Table"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Fisheries (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/746), regs. 1, 14(3)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Fisheries (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/746), regs. 1, 14(3)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. substituted (7.6.2024) by The Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/655), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Fisheries (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/746), regs. 1, 14(3)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. Table substituted (9.6.2020) by The Sea Fishing (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/516), regs. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. Table substituted (9.6.2020) by The Sea Fishing (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/516), regs. 1, 2(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. Table substituted (9.6.2020) by The Sea Fishing (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/516), regs. 1, 2(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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