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Measures 2008: Blue Whiting

 

Recommendation from the 26th Annual Meeting Nov 2007

 

RECOMMENDATION BY THE NORTH EAST ATLANTIC FISHERIES COMMISSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 5 OF THE CONVENTION ON FUTURE MULTILATERAL COOPERATION IN NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC FISHERIES AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING IN NOVEMBER 2007 TO ADOPT CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT MEASURES FOR BLUE WHITING IN THE NEAFC CONVENTION AREA IN 2008

Becomes Binding: 9th January 2008
Enters into force: 8th February 2008

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The Contracting Parties recommend the following measures:
 
1. In order to ensure consistency and compatibility with the said Agreed Record, the Contracting Parties hereby establish an allowable catch limitation of 181,748 tonnes of Blue Whiting for 2008 in waters beyond the areas under national fisheries jurisdiction of the Contracting Parties.

2. This allowable catch limitation shall be allocated as follows:
Denmark In Respect of:
The Faroe Islands 21,285 tonnes (*)
Greenland 6,768 tonnes
European Community 25,311 tonnes (*)
Iceland 14,381 tonnes (*)
Norway 21,285 tonnes (*)
Russian Federation 92,718 tonnes
(*) Catches taken under these allocations shall be deducted from quotas allocated to Parties to the Agreed Record referred to in paragraph 2.

3. The Contracting Parties agree that the relative shares established under paragraphs 2 and 3 are fixed for the future management of blue whiting in the NEAFC context. In addition to these fixed shares, the Russian Federation is granted a quantity of 16,282 tonnes for 2008. This quantity will annually be reduced until it is phased out by 2012.

4.The national quotas referred to in Annex I of the Agreed Record referred to in paragraph 2 may be fished in the areas defined in paragraph 3 a.

5. Quotas that are transferred to a Contracting Party to be fished within national waters of another Contracting Party may be fished in the areas defined in paragraph 3 a, subject to agreement between the Contracting Parties concerned.

6. Quotas that are transferred to a Contracting Party to be fished within national waters of another Contracting Party may be fished in the areas defined in paragraph 3 a, subject to agreement between the Contracting Parties concerned.

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