Agriculture & Fisheries BOE Importance: 4/10

New regulation on access to fishing quotas for scientific research

16 Jul 2026 Effective: 16 Jul 2026 34 views
Who is affected:
Shipowners and Spanish-flagged fishing vessels conducting voluntary scientific campaigns

Summary

It regulates how fishing vessels can use up to 2% of national quotas for scientific campaigns without this counting against their assigned quota. This exemption is also extended to fishing effort, not just catches.

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Order APA/731/2026 establishes the framework for Spanish fishing vessels participating in voluntary scientific campaigns to not count their catches and fishing effort against their assigned quotas, up to the 2% limit set by Regulation CE 1224/2009. The main novelty compared to previous regulations (Order APA/441/2023) …

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Full official title

Orden APA/731/2026, de 7 de julio, por la que se regula el acceso al porcentaje de capturas y esfuerzo para fines científicos y se establecen los criterios para su fijación en el marco de campañas científicas autorizadas.

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Agriculture

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