(a) the taking and landing of marine biological resources; (b) the operation of fishing gear; and (c) the interaction of fishing activities with marine ecosystems.
Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1967/2006, (EC) No 1224/2009 and Regulations (EU) No 1380/2013, (EU) 2016/1139, (EU) 2018/973, (EU) 2019/472 and (EU) 2019/1022 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 894/97, (EC) No 850/98, (EC) No 2549/2000, (EC) No 254/2002, (EC) No 812/2004 and (EC) No 2187/2005
Modified by
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/2013of 21 August 2020amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards technical measures for certain demersal and pelagic fisheries in the North Sea and in the South Western Waters, 32020R2013, December 10, 2020
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1160of 12 May 2021amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the sprat box and the plaice box in the North Sea, 32021R1160, July 15, 2021
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2324of 23 August 2021amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards technical measures for certain demersal and pelagic fisheries in the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea and the West of Scotland, 32021R2324, December 29, 2021
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/199of 2 December 2021amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the use of excluder devices in the North Sea fishery for Norway pout, 32022R0199, February 15, 2022
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/200of 2 December 2021amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards certain technical measures on mesh sizes and the overall maximum length for certain beam trawls in the North Sea, 32022R0200, February 15, 2022
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/303of 15 December 2021amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 as regards measures to reduce incidental catches of the resident population of the Baltic Proper harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the Baltic Sea, 32022R0303, February 25, 2022
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/826of 23 March 2022correcting and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards exemptions from the plaice box, 32022R0826, May 30, 2022
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1357of 25 May 2022amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards king scallops (Pecten maximus) in the English Channel, 32022R1357, August 5, 2022
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2587of 18 August 2022amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the minimum conservation reference size of Venus shells (Venus spp.) in certain Italian territorial waters, 32022R2587, December 30, 2022
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2588of 20 October 2022amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards technical measures for certain demersal and pelagic fisheries in the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea and the West of Scotland, 32022R2588, December 30, 2022
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/56of 19 July 2022amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards specific technical measures for red seabream (Pagellus bogaraveo) in ICES subareas 6 to 8, 32023R0056, January 6, 2023
(a) scientific investigations; and (b) direct restocking or transplantation of marine species.
(a) optimise exploitation patterns to provide protection for juveniles and spawning aggregations of marine biological resources; (b) ensure that incidental catches of sensitive marine species, including those listed under Directives 92/43/EEC and 2009/147/EC, that are a result of fishing, are minimised and where possible eliminated so that they do not represent a threat to the conservation status of these species; (c) ensure, including by using appropriate incentives, that the negative environmental impacts of fishing on marine habitats are minimised; (d) have in place fisheries management measures for the purposes of complying with Directives 92/43/EEC, 2000/60/EC and 2008/56/EC, in particular with a view to achieving good environmental status in line with Article 9(1) of Directive 2008/56/EC, and with Directive 2009/147/EC.
(a) catches of marine species below the minimum conservation reference size are reduced as far as possible in accordance with Article 2(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013. (b) incidental catches of marine mammals, marine reptiles, seabirds and other non-commercially exploited species do not exceed levels provided for in Union legislation and international agreements that are binding on the Union. (c) the environmental impacts of fishing activities on seabed habitats are in line with point (j) of Article 2(5) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013.
(a) "North Sea" means Union waters in ICES divisions ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) divisions are as defined in Regulation (EC) No 218/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in the north-east Atlantic (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 70 ).(b) "Baltic Sea" means Union waters in ICES divisions 3b, 3c and 3d; (c) "North Western waters" means Union waters in ICES sub-areas 5, 6 and 7; (d) "South Western waters" means ICES sub-areas 8, 9 and 10 (Union waters) and CECAF zones CECAF (Eastern Central Atlantic or FAO major fishing zone 34) zones are as defined in Regulation (EC) No 216/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on the submission of nominal catch statistics by Member States fishing in certain areas other than those of the North Atlantic (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 1 ).(e) "Mediterranean Sea" means the maritime waters of the Mediterranean to the East of line 5°36′ W; (f) "Black Sea" means waters in GFCM geographical sub-area 29 as defined in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1343/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council Regulation (EU) No 1343/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on certain provisions for fishing in the GFCM (General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean) Agreement area and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006 concerning management measures for the sustainable exploitation of fishery resources in the Mediterranean Sea (OJ L 347, 30.12.2011, p. 44 ).(g) "Union waters in the Indian Ocean and the West Atlantic" means waters around Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion and Saint Martin under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of a Member State; (h) "NEAFC Regulatory Area" means the waters of the NEAFC Convention Area which lie beyond the waters under the fisheries jurisdiction of the Contracting Parties as defined in Regulation (EU) No 1236/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council Regulation (EU) No 1236/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 2010 laying down a scheme of control and enforcement applicable in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the North-East Atlantic fisheries and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 2791/1999 (OJ L 348, 31.12.2010, p. 17 ).(i) "GFCM Agreement area" means the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea and connecting waters, as defined in Regulation (EU) No 1343/2011.
(1) "exploitation pattern" means how fishing mortality is distributed across the age and size profile of a stock; (2) "selectivity" means a quantitative expression represented as a probability of capture of marine biological resources of a certain size and/or species; (3) "directed fishing" means fishing effort targeted at a specific species or group of species and may be further specified at regional level in delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 27(7) of this Regulation; (4) "good environmental status" means the environmental status of marine waters as defined by Article 3(5) of Directive 2008/56/EC; (5) "conservation status of a species" means the sum of the influences acting on the species concerned that may affect the long-term distribution and abundance of its populations; (6) "conservation status of a habitat" means the sum of the influences acting on a natural habitat and its typical species that may affect its long-term natural distribution, structure and functions as well as the long-term survival of its typical species; (7) "sensitive habitat" means a habitat whose conservation status, including its extent and the condition (structure and function) of its biotic and abiotic components, is adversely affected by pressures arising from human activities, including fishing activities. Sensitive habitats, in particular, include habitat types listed in Annex I, and habitats of species listed in Annex II to Directive 92/43/EEC, habitats of species listed in Annex I to Directive 2009/147/EC, habitats whose protection is necessary to achieve good environmental status under Directive 2008/56/EC and vulnerable marine ecosystems as defined by point (b) of Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 734/2008 Council Regulation (EC) No 734/2008 of 15 July 2008 on the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems in the high seas from the adverse impacts of bottom fishing gears (OJ L 201, 30.7.2008, p. 8 ).(8) "sensitive species" means a species whose conservation status, including its habitat, distribution, population size or population condition is adversely affected by pressures arising from human activities, including fishing activities. Sensitive species, in particular, include species listed in Annexes II and IV to Directive 92/43/EEC, species covered by Directive 2009/147/EC and species whose protection is necessary to achieve good environmental status under Directive 2008/56/EC; (9) "small pelagic species" means species such as mackerel, herring, horse mackerel, anchovy, sardine, blue whiting, argentines, sprat, and boarfish; (10) "Advisory Councils" means stakeholder groups established in accordance with Article 43 of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013; (11) "trawl" means fishing gear which is actively towed by one or more fishing vessels and consisting of a net closed at the back by a bag or a codend; (12) "towed gear" means any trawls, Danish seines, dredges and similar gear which are actively moved in the water by one or more fishing vessels or by any other mechanised system; (13) "bottom trawl" means a trawl designed and rigged to operate on or near the seabed; (14) "bottom pair trawl" means a bottom trawl towed by two boats simultaneously, one towing each side of the trawl. The horizontal opening of the trawl is maintained by the distance between the two vessels as they tow the gear; (15) "pelagic trawl" means a trawl designed and rigged to operate in midwater; (16) "beam trawl" means gear with a trawl net open horizontally by a beam, wing or similar device; (17) "electric pulse trawl" means a trawl which uses an electric current to catch marine biological resources; (18) "Danish seine" or "Scottish seine" means an encircling and towed gear, operated from a boat by means of two long ropes (seine ropes) designed to herd the fish towards the opening of the seine. The gear is made up of a net which is similar in design to a bottom trawl; (19) "shore seines" means surrounding nets and towed seines set from a boat and pulled towards the shore as they are being operated from the shore or from a vessel moored or anchored by the shore; (20) "surrounding nets" means nets which catch fish by surrounding them both from the sides and from below. They may or may not be equipped with a purse line; (21) "purse seine" or "ring nets" means any surrounding net where the bottom is drawn together by means of a purse line situated at the bottom of the net, which passes through a series of rings along the groundrope, enabling the net to be pursed and closed; (22) "dredges" means gear which are either actively towed by the main boat engine (boat dredge) or hauled by a motorised winch from an anchored vessel (mechanised dredge) to catch bivalves, gastropods or sponges and which consist of a net bag or metal basket mounted on a rigid frame or rod of variable size and shape whose lower part may carry a scraper blade that can be either rounded, sharp or toothed, and may or may not be equipped with skids and diving boards. Some dredges are equipped with hydraulic equipment (hydraulic dredges). Dredges pulled by hand or by manual winches in shallow waters with or without a boat to catch bivalves, gastropods or sponges (hand dredges) shall not be considered towed gear for the purpose of this Regulation; (23) "static nets" means any type of gillnet, entangling net or trammel net that is anchored to the seabed for fish to swim into and become entangled or enmeshed in the netting; (24) "driftnet" means a net held on the water surface or at a certain distance below it by floating devices and drifting with the current, either independently or with the boat to which it may be attached. It may be equipped with devices aiming to stabilise the net or to limit its drift; (25) "gillnet" means a static net made up of a single piece of net and held vertically in the water by floats and weights; (26) "entangling net" means a static net consisting of a wall of netting rigged so that the netting is hung onto the ropes to create a greater amount of slack netting than a gillnet; (27) "trammel net" means a static net made up of several layers of netting with two outer layers of a large mesh size with a sheet of small mesh sandwiched between them; (28) "combined gillnet and trammel net" means any bottom-set gillnet combined with a trammel net which constitutes the lower part; (29) "longline" means a fishing gear consisting of a main line of variable length, to which branch lines (snoods) with hooks are fixed at intervals determined by the target species. The main line is anchored either horizontally on or near the bottom or vertically, or can be allowed to drift on the surface; (30) "pots and creels" means traps in the form of cages or baskets having one or more entrances, designed to catch crustaceans, molluscs or fish, that are set on the seabed or suspended above it; (31) "handline" means a single fishing line with one or more lures or baited hooks; (32) "St Andrew’s cross" means a grab which employs a scissor-like action to harvest for example bivalve molluscs or red coral from the seabed; (33) "codend" means the rearmost part of the trawl, having either a cylindrical shape, with the same circumference throughout, or a tapering shape. It can be made up of one or more panels (pieces of netting) attached to one another along their sides and can include the lengthening piece which is made up of one or more panels located just in front of the codend sensu stricto ;(34) "mesh size" means: (i) for knotted netting: the longest distance between two opposite knots in the same mesh when fully extended; (ii) for knotless netting: the inside distance between the opposite joints in the same mesh when fully extended along its longest possible axis;
(35) "square mesh" means a quadrilateral mesh composed of two sets of parallel bars of the same nominal length, where one set is parallel to, and the other is at right angles to, the longitudinal axis of the net; (36) "diamond mesh" means a mesh composed of four bars of the same length where the two diagonals of the mesh are perpendicular and one diagonal is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the net; (37) "T90" means trawls, Danish seines or similar towed gear having a codend and extension piece produced from knotted diamond mesh netting turned 90 o so that the main direction of run of the netting is parallel to the towing direction;(38) "Bacoma exit window" means an escape panel constructed in knotless square mesh netting fitted into the top panel of a codend with its lower edge no more than four meshes from the codline; (39) "sieve net" means a piece of netting attached to the full circumference of the shrimp trawl in front of the codend or extension piece, and tapering to an apex where it is attached to the bottom sheet of the shrimp trawl. An exit hole is cut where the sieve net and codend join, allowing species or individuals too large to pass through the sieve to escape, whereas the shrimp can pass through the sieve and into the codend; (40) "drop" means the sum of the height of the meshes (including knots) in a net when wet and stretched perpendicular to the float line; (41) "immersion time" or "soak time" means the period from the point of time when the gear is first put in the water until the point of time when the gear is fully recovered on board the fishing vessel; (42) "gear monitoring sensors" means remote electronic sensors that are placed on fishing gear to monitor key performance parameters such as the distance between trawl doors or volume of the catch; (43) "weighted line" means a line of baited hooks with added weight to increase its sinking speed and thereby reduce its time of exposure to seabirds; (44) "acoustic deterrent device" means devices aimed to deter species such as marine mammals from fishing gear by emitting acoustic signals; (45) "bird scaring lines" (also called a tori line) means lines with streamers that are towed from a high point near the stern of fishing vessels as baited hooks are deployed, with the aim of scaring seabirds away from the hooks; (46) "direct restocking" means the activity of releasing live wild animals of selected species into waters where they occur naturally, in order to use the natural production of the aquatic environment to increase the number of individuals available for fisheries and/or to increase natural recruitment; (47) "transplantation" means the process by which a species is intentionally transported and released by humans within areas of established populations of that species; (48) "selectivity performance indicator" means a reference tool to monitor progress over time towards the achievement of the CFP objective of minimising unwanted catches; (49) "spear gun" means a pneumatic or mechanically powered hand-held gun that shoots a spear for the purpose of underwater fishing; (50) "length of optimal selectivity (L opt )" is the average length of capture, provided by the best available scientific advice, that optimises the growth of individuals in a stock.
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