Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009Show full title

Section 1 U.K. Use of fishing gear

Article 47 U.K. Fishing gear

In fisheries in which it is not allowed to use more than one type of gear, any other gear shall be lashed and stowed so that it may not readily be used, in accordance with the following conditions:

(a)

nets, weights and similar gear shall be disconnected from their trawl boards and towing and hauling wires and ropes;

(b)

nets which are on or above deck shall be securely lashed and stowed;

(c)

longlines shall be stowed in lower decks.

Article 48 U.K. Retrieval of lost gear

1. A Community fishing vessel shall have the equipment on board to retrieve lost gear.

2. The master of a Community fishing vessel that has lost gear or part of it shall attempt to retrieve it as soon as possible.

3. If the lost gear cannot be retrieved, the master of the vessel shall inform the competent authority of its flag Member State, which shall then inform the competent authority of the coastal Member State, within 24 hours of the following:

(a) the external identification number and the name of the fishing vessel;

(b) the type of lost gear;

(c) the time when the gear was lost;

(d) the position where the gear was lost;

(e) the measures undertaken to retrieve the gear.

4. If the gear that is retrieved by the competent authorities of the Member States has not been reported as lost, these authorities may recover the cost from the master of the fishing vessel that lost the gear.

5. A Member State may exempt Community fishing vessels of less than 12 metres’ length overall flying its flag from the requirement set out in paragraph 1 if they:

(a) operate exclusively within the territorial seas of the flag Member State; or

(b) never spend more than 24 hours at sea from the time of departure to the return to port.

Article 49 U.K. Catch composition

1. If catches which have been retained on board any Community fishing vessel have been taken with nets with different minimum mesh sizes during the same voyage, the species composition shall be calculated for each part of the catch which has been taken under different conditions. To that end, all changes from the mesh size previously used as well as the catch composition on board at the moment of any such change shall be entered into the fishing logbook.

2. Without prejudice to Article 44, detailed rules on the keeping on board of a stowage plan, by species, of processed products, indicating where they are located in the hold, may be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 119.