ANNEX IVSupplementary provisions
ANNEX IV ICCAT CONVENTION AREA ( 1 ) 1. Maximum number of Union bait boats and trolling boats authorised to fish actively for bluefin tuna between 8 kg/75 cm and 30 kg/115 cm in the Eastern Atlantic Spain 60 France 37 Union 97 2. Maximum number of Union coastal artisanal fishing vessels authorised to fish actively for bluefin tuna between 8 kg/75 cm and 30 kg/115 cm in the Mediterranean Spain 119 France 107 Italy 30 Cyprus 13 ( 2 ) Malta 44 ( 2 ) Union 313 3. Maximum number of Union fishing vessels authorised to fish actively for bluefin tuna between 8 kg/75 cm and 30 kg/115 cm in the Adriatic Sea for farming purposes Croatia 15 Italy 12 Union 27 4. Maximum number and total capacity in gross tonnage of fishing vessels of each Member State that may be authorised to fish for, retain on board, tranship, transport, or land bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Table A Number of fishing vessels ( 3 ) Cyprus ( 4 ) Greece ( 5 ) Croatia Italy France Spain Malta ( 6 ) Purse Seiners 1 1 15 12 17 6 1 Longliners 13 ( 7 ) 0 0 30 8 31 44 Baitboat 0 0 0 0 37 60 0 Handline 0 0 12 0 29 ( 8 ) 2 0 Trawler 0 0 0 0 57 0 0 Other artisanal ( 9 ) 0 34 0 0 107 32 0 Table B Total capacity in gross tonnage Cyprus Croatia Greece Italy France Spain Malta Purse Seiners To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established Longliners To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established Baitboats To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established Handlines To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established Trawlers To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established Other artisanal To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established To be established 5. Maximum number of traps engaged in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery authorised by each Member State Number of traps ( 10 ) Spain 5 Italy 6 Portugal 3 6. Maximum bluefin tuna farming capacity and fattening capacity for each Member State and maximum input of wild caught bluefin tuna that each Member State may allocate to its farms in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Table A Maximum tuna farming capacity and fattening capacity Number of farms Capacity (in tonnes) Spain 14 11 852 Italy 15 13 000 Greece 2 2 100 Cyprus 3 3 000 Croatia 4 7 880 Malta 8 12 300 Table B ( 11 ) Maximum input of wild caught bluefin tuna (in tonnes) Spain 5 855 Italy 3 764 Greece 785 Cyprus 2 195 Croatia 2 947 Malta 8 768 Portugal 500 7. The distribution between the Member States of the maximum number of fishing vessels flying the flag of a Member State authorised to fish for northern albacore as a target species in accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 520/2007 shall be as follows: Member State Maximum number of vessels Ireland 50 Spain 730 France 151 United Kingdom 12 Portugal 310 8. Maximum number of Union fishing vessels of at least 20 meters length that fish for bigeye tuna in the ICCAT Convention Area shall be as follows: Member State Maximum number of vessels with purse seines Maximum number of vessels with longlines Spain 23 190 France 11 — Portugal — 79 Union 34 269 ( 1 ) The numbers shown in sections 1, 2 and 3 may decrease in order to comply with international obligations of the Union. ( 2 ) This number may increase if a purse seine vessel is replaced by 10 longline vessels in accordance with footnote 4 or footnote 6 of table A in point 4 of this Annex. ( 3 ) The numbers in this Table A of section 4 may be further increased, provided that the international obligations of the Union are complied with. ( 4 ) One medium size purse seiner may be replaced by no more than 10 longline vessels or one small purse seiner and no more than three longline vessels. ( 5 ) One medium size purse seiner may be replaced by no more than 10 longline vessels or one small size purse seine vessel and three other artisanal vessels. ( 6 ) One medium size purse seiner may be replaced by no more than 10 longline vessels. ( 7 ) Polyvalent vessels, using multi-gear equipment. ( 8 ) Line vessels operating in the Atlantic. ( 9 ) Polyvalent vessels, using multi-gear equipment (longline, handline, trolling line). ( 10 ) This number may be further increased, provided that the international obligations of the Union are complied with. ( 11 ) The farming capacity of Portugal of 500 tonnes is covered by the unused capacity of the Union set out in table A.