Conservation of fishery resources : technical measures (18th amend. regul. 3094/86/EEC)

- OBJECTIVE: to amend for the 18th time Regulation (EEC) No 3094/86 providing for technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources in order to introduce a new system for the management of fishing activities in Spain and Portugal. This system, which is to apply from 01.01.1996, essentially provides for the non-increase of fishing activities in these countries and the preservation of the existing equilibrium in certain specific zones. - SUBSTANCE: The amendments introduced relate specifically to: . the ban on the use of drift nets for catching tuna fish in waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of Portugal and Spain, namely those of CECAF and ICES sections VIII, IX, X, including - where Spain is concerned - the waters off the Canary Islands; . the ban on the use of rotating seines for catching tropical tuna (skipjack, bigeye tuna and albacore) in the waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of Portugal in the ICES zones X to the north of parallel 36 30' North and in the CECAF zone to the north of parallel 31 North and to the east of meridian 17 30' West. - ENTRY INTO FORCE: 01.01.1996. �