regulating the amount of total catch and fishing effort and their allocation among Members,

(d) take into account the biological unity and other biological characteristics of the stocks and the relationships between the distribution of the stocks, the fisheries and the geographical particularities of the region concerned, including the extent to which the stocks occur and are fished in areas under national jurisdiction;

the degree of overfishing,

A directed fishery for a species is conducted when that species comprises the largest percentage by weight of the catch in any one haul.

Fishing shall take place over as large a geographical and bathymetric range as possible to obtain the information necessary to determine fishery potential and to avoid over-concentration of catch and effort.

making it possible to estimate the total volume of catches per stock, including discards where appropriate and, where necessary, to classify these catches by vessel group, geographical area and time period.

In addition, the modernization or conversion work on existing fishing vessels referred to in Article 2 (a) must be carried out on a large scale for the purpose of rationalizing fishing operations, better preserving catches or saving energy and total a minimum of 65 000 ECU per project.

if the catch volume by Community vessels in Equatorial Guinea's fishing zone exceeds this quantity, the aforesaid amount shall be increased accordingly.

Within three hours of each entry and exit of the zone and every three days during their fishing activities in Seychelles waters, Community vessels shall communicate directly to the Seychelles authorities, in priority by fax or, in the event of failure, by radio, their position and the volume of catches held on board.

Where, for a given fishing year, biological circumstances require the total volume of catches from a particular stock to be fixed at a level which does not permit Greenland to meet the obligation arising from Article 2 and, at the same time, to maintain its fishing activities at a level corresponding to minimum quantities laid down in the Protocols referred to in Article 2 (1), the corresponding quotas agreed with the Community for the stock or stocks concerned shall be reduced accordingly, without this reduction affecting the level of the financial compensation referred to in Article 6.

ANY MEASURES REGULATING AND/OR ALLOCATING BETWEEN THE CONTRACTING STATES THE AMOUNT OF TOTAL CATCH OR THE AMOUNT OF FISHING EFFORT ACCORDING TO OBJECTS , KINDS , REGIONS AND FISHING PERIODS;

Catches of crustaceans, in the form of a by-catch, will be permitted only up to 10 % of the volume of the catch kept on board in the course of directed fishing for hake and other demersal species.

length sampling shall be provided for both nominal catches and discards, with a sampling intensity on the same scale as adopted in (a) and summarized on a monthly basis.

It is therefore necessary to stipulate what is required in the marketing strategy, the catch plan, and the production plan for both fishing and aquaculture producer organisations.

To provide information on catches of juvenile hake by some vessels targeting hake and by other vessels targeting Norway lobsters, observers should be placed on board vessels engaged in such activities, taking into account the level of fishing activity by each Member State fishing in the appropriate areas.

Whereas these adjustments must not entail an increase in the overall levels of existing fishing effort per ICES and CECAF division nor adversely affect resources subject to quantitative catch restrictions;

Except where provisions adopted under the common fisheries policy dictate otherwise, a Member State shall be permitted to use sampling techniques to derive catch data for those parts of the fishing fleet for which the complete coverage of the data would involve the excessive application of administrative procedures.

The quantities referred to in paragraph 3 of Protocol No 4 shall be apportioned among the Member States on the basis of the available volume of the catches allocated to them in the waters of the third countries concerned, account being taken of the relative importance of each category of product thus apportioned within the overall fishing possibilities allocated in the waters of the third country concerned.