ANNEX 1.

Fishing zones	Gear Code	Fishing gear description	Mesh Size	Species to be landed
ICES divisions VIIIa, b, d and e	OTB, OTT, PTB, TBN, TBS, TB, OT, PT, TX	All Bottom Trawls	Mesh size between 70 mm and100 mm wide	All catches of common sole
	TBB	All Beam trawls	Mesh size between 70 mm and 100 mm wide
	GNS, GN, GND, GNC, GTN, GTR, GEN	All Trammel nets & Gill nets	Mesh size larger or equal to 100 mm wide

2.

Fishing zones	Gear Code	Fishing gear description	Mesh Size	Species to be landed
ICES division IXa	GNS, GN, GND, GNC, GTN, GTR, GEN	All Trammel nets & Gill nets	Mesh size larger or equal to 100 mm	All catches of common sole and plaice

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Reference period will be updated accordingly for subsequent years. For 2018 the reference period will be 2015 and 2016 and for 2019 the reference period will be 2016 and 2017.
Fishing zones	Gear Code	Fishing gear description	Mesh Size	Species to be landed
ICES divisions VIIIa, b, d and e	OTT, OTB, PTB, SDN, OT, PT, TBN, TBS, TX, SSC, SPR, TB, SX, SV	All Bottom Trawls & Seines	Mesh size larger or equal to 100 mm wide	All catches of hake
	LL, LLS	All Long lines	All
	GNS, GN, GND, GNC, GTN, GEN	All Gill Nets	Mesh size larger or equal to 100 mm wide
ICES divisions VIIIc and IXa	OTT, OTB, PTB, OT, PT, TBN, TBS, TX, SSC, SPR, TB, SDN, SX, SV	All Bottom Trawls and Seines	Vessels which fulfil the following cumulative criteria: Use mesh size larger or equal to 70 mm Total hake landings in the period 2014/2015 consist of: more than 5 % of all landed species and more than 5 metric tons.	All catches of hake
	GNS, GN, GND, GNC, GTN, GEN	All Gill Nets	Mesh size between 80 and 99 mm wide
	LL, LLS	All Long lines	Hook size bigger than 3,85 cm +/– 1,15 cm length and 1,6 cm +/– 0,4 cm width

4.

Fishing zones	Gear Code	Fishing gear description	Mesh Size	Species to be landed
ICES divisions VIIIa, b, d and e	GNS, GN, GND, GNC, GTN, GEN	All Gill Nets	Mesh size larger of equal to 200 mm wide	All catches of anglerfish
ICES divisions VIIIc and IXa	GNS, GN, GND, GNC, GTN, GEN	All Gill Nets	Mesh size larger of equal to 200 mm wide	All catches of anglerfish

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Fishing zones	Gear Code	Fishing gear description	Mesh Size	Species to be landed
ICES divisions VIIIa, b, d and e (only inside functional units)	OTB, OTT, PTB, TBN, TBS, TB, OT, PT, TX	All Bottom Trawls	Mesh size larger or equal to 70 mm	All catches of Norway lobster
ICES divisions VIIIc and IXa (only inside functional units)	OTB, PTB, OTT, TBN, TBS, OT, PT, TX TB	All Bottom Trawls	Mesh size larger or equal to 70 mm	All catches of Norway lobster

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Fishing zones	Gear Code	Fishing gear description	Mesh Size	Species to be landed
ICES divisions VIIIc, IX, X and CECAF zone 34.1.2	LLS, DWS	Deepwater set-longlines	—	All catches of black scabbardfish

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Fishing zones	Gear Code	Fishing gear description	Mesh Size	Species to be landed
ICES division IX	LLS, DWS	Deepwater set-longlines	Hook size bigger than 3,95 cm length and 1,65 cm width	All catches of red seabream