Pursuant to the precautionary principle, contracting parties and cooperating non-contracting parties shall adopt and implement a minimum 40 mm square mesh codend or a diamond mesh size of at least 50 mm for all trawling activities exploiting demersal stocks when operating in the GFCM area of application. The contracting parties and cooperating non-contracting parties shall communicate to the GFCM Secretariat, every three months, the list of fishing vessels equipped with a trawl codend mesh size and their percentage out of the whole national demersal trawl fleet.
2009-01-01