Legal minimum landing sizes of North Sea fish species under UK Statutory Instruments (SI) and European Council Regulations (CR) post-introduction of the Common Fisheries Policy in 1983.

SI and CR that merely maintained legal landing sizes at current values are not listed.*Although blue ling have an assigned legal minimum landing size, they are only rarely caught in the IBTS trawl surveys, so were included in the ‘other marketable’ species category for analysis with the reduced model.Legal minimum landing sizes of North Sea fish species under UK Statutory Instruments (SI) and European Council Regulations (CR) post-introduction of the Common Fisheries Policy in 1983.