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HIGHLY MIGRATORY FISH All Areas TACS in this area are adopted in the framework of international fisheries organisations on tuna fisheries, such as ICCAT and IATTC. Species: Bluefin tuna Zone: Atlantic Ocean, east of longitude 45° W, and Mediterranean Cyprus Greece 323,4 Spain 6 276,7 France 6 192,7 Italy 4 888 Malta Portugal 590,2 All Member States 60 EC 18 331 TAC 32 000 Cyprus and Malta may fish under the ICCAT ‘Others’ quota in accordance with the ICCAT Compliance Tables adopted at 2003 ICCAT Annual Meeting. Except Cyprus, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Malta and Portugal, and only as by-catch. Species: Swordfish Zone: Atlantic Ocean, north of latitude 5° N Spain 6 541,5 Portugal 1 010,4 All Member States 148,5 EC 7 700,4 TAC 14 000 Except Spain and Portugal, and only as by-catch. Species: Swordfish Zone: Atlantic Ocean, south of latitude 5° N Spain 6 595,6 Portugal 371,1 EC 6 966,7 TAC 15 956 Species: Northern Albacore Zone: Atlantic Ocean, north of latitude 5° N Ireland 5 723,3 Spain 31 383 France 8 217 United Kingdom 600,7 Portugal 4 129,5 EC 50 053,5 TAC 34 500

It is prohibited to use any gill net, bottom set gill net, trammel net and entangling net. The number of Community fishing vessels fishing for Northern Albacore as a target species is fixed to pm vessels in accordance with Article 10 (1) of Regulation (EC) No 973/2001. Member State Maximum number of vessels Ireland 50 Spain 730 France 151 United Kingdom 12 Portugal 310 EC 1 253 Species: Southern Albacore Zone: Atlantic Ocean, south of latitude 5° N Spain 943,7 France 311 Portugal 660 EC 1 914,7 TAC 30 915 Species: Bigeye Tuna Zone: Atlantic Ocean Spain 21 526,4 France 9 438 Portugal 13 511 EC 44 475,4 TAC 90 000 Species: Blue marlin Zone: Atlantic Ocean EC 103 TAC Not relevant Species: White marlin Zone: Atlantic Ocean EC 46,5 TAC Not relevant