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Regulation (EU) 2023/2124 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 October 2023 on certain provisions for fishing in the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) Agreement area (recast) article 104 CELEX: 32023R2124 Incidental catches of monk seals
1. Masters of fishing vessels shall not take on board, tranship or land monk seals (Monachus monachus), unless this is required in order to rescue, and to secure assistance for the recovery of, harmed individual animals and provided that the competent national authorities concerned have been duly and officially informed prior to the fishing vessel concerned returning to port. 2. Monk seals incidentally caught in fishing gear shall be released unharmed and alive. The carcasses of dead specimens shall be landed and seized for the purpose of scientific studies or destroyed by the competent national authorities. |