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A Protocol establishing the fishing rights and financial compensation provided for in the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Government of the Republic of Senegal on fishing off the coast of Senegal for the period from 1 May 1997 to 30 April 2001. The limits referred to in Article 4 (2) of the Agreement shall concern: a) trawlers (inshore demersal fishing for fish and cephalopods) with the option of fishing with freezing facilities for 150 GRT; b) ocean-going fish trawlers (deep-water demersal species); c) freezer trawlers (inshore demersal fishing for fish and cephalopods); ocean-going freezer trawlers (deep-water demersal fishing for crustaceans, except lobster); pole-and-line tuna vessels; freezer tuna s einers; surface longliners; ocean-going freezer trawlers (deep-water fishing). The maximum catch of deep-sea fish shall be 25 000 tonnes per year. The total number of trawlers (demersal fishing) shall be 50. A maximum tolerance of 8 % per category shall apply to this figure. For the period referred to in Article 1 of this Protocol, the financial compensation referred to in Article 9 of the Agreement is hereby fixed at ECU 48 000 000, payable in four equal annual instalments. The Senegalese autho rities shall be responsible for determining the use made of this compensation and shall notify the Commission by 13 April 1997 of the details of that use, using as a basis the aims of sustainable development of fishing, including non-industrial fishing, listed in the previous Protocol (financial compensation to the Treasury, knowledge of fish stocks, training, fisheries surveillance, institutional assistance, special programme of action for fishing activities, etc.). It also establishes the re quirements to be met for obtaining a fishing licence.Implements: LEX-FAOC018099; FAO Descriptors: 110; 003; 023; 107; 039; 029
