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PROHIBITED SPECIES Species for which there is a prohibition to fish for, retain on board, tranship, land, store, sell, display or offer for sale, as referred to in Article 10(2):

(a) The following species of sawfish in all Union waters:

(i) narrow sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata);

(ii) dwarf sawfish (Pristis clavata);

(iii) smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata);

(iv) largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis);

(v) green sawfish (Pristis zijsron);

(b) basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) and white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in all waters;

(c) smooth lantern shark (Etmopterus pusillus) in Union waters of ICES division 2a and subarea 4 and in Union waters of ICES subareas 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 14;

(d) reef manta ray (Manta alfredi) in all Union waters;

(e) giant manta ray (Manta birostris) in all Union waters;

(f) the following species of Mobula rays in all Union waters:

(i) devil fish (Mobula mobular);

(ii) lesser Guinean devil ray (Mobula rochebrunei);

(iii) spinetail mobula (Mobula japanica);

(iv) smoothtail mobula (Mobula thurstoni);

(v) longhorned mobula (Mobula eregoodootenkee);

(vi) Munk’s devil ray (Mobula munkiana);

(vii) Chilean devil ray (Mobula tarapacana); (viii) shortfin devil ray (Mobula kuhlii);

(ix) lesser devil ray (Mobula hypostoma);

(g) Norwegian skate (Raja (Dipturus) nidarosiensis) in Union waters of ICES divisions 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7e, 7f, 7g, 7h and 7k;

(h) white skate (Raja alba) in Union waters of ICES subareas 6-10 (i) guitarfishes (Rhinobatidae) in Union waters of ICES subareas 1-10 and 12;

(j) angel shark (Squatina squatina) in all Union waters;

(k) salmon (Salmo salar) and sea trout (Salmo trutta) when fishing with any towed net within the waters outside the six-mile limit measured from Member States’ baselines in ICES sub-areas 1, 2 and 4-10 (Union waters);

(l) houting (Coregonus oxyrhynchus) in ICES division 4b (Union waters);

(m) the Adriatic sturgeon (Acipenser naccarii) and common sturgeon (Acipenser sturio) in Union waters;

(n) berried female crawfish (Palinurus spp.) and berried female lobster (Homarus gammarus) in the Mediterranean Sea except when used for direct restocking or transplantation purposes;

(o) date shell (Lithophaga lithophaga), fan mussel (Pinna nobilis) and common piddock (Pholas dactylus) in Union waters in the Mediterranean Sea;

(p) hatpin urchin (Centrostephanus longispinus);

(q) berried female European lobster (Homarus gammarus) in ICES divisions 3a, 4a and 4b.