OBJECTIVE: in line with the Commission undertaking, the aim is to modify existing technical
measures for the conversation of fishery resources, so as to improve their effectiveness in limiting
the capture of immature fish.
SUBSTANCE: the proposal for a Council Regulation has two fundamental aspects:
- two types of measures are proposed to reduce the capture of immature fish: improvements on the
existing legislation in respect of towed nets, and restrictions on fishing in certain areas and during
certain periods when immature fish are abundant (hake but also herring and demersal species);
- the proposal also contains provisions designed to facilitate implementation of the existing
legislation by simple and comprehensible provision, exemptions from the general rules being kept
to a minimum.
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