5. Fishing nets and nettings of all kinds; specially designed needles for use in repairing fishing nets; metal panel devices for use in keeping nets open; metal swivels; fish hooks, lures, jiggers and artificial baits; sinkers and floats including trawl kegs; threads, twine, marlines, fishing lines, rope and cordage; carapace measures; all the foregoing for use in commercial fishing, or in the commercial harvesting of marine plants; none of the foregoing for sports fishing purposes; articles and materials for use in the manufacture, preservation or repair of the tax exempt goods specified in this section.

(5) A change to any other good of subheadings 6812.60 through 6812.90 from fabricated asbestos fibers or mixtures with a basis of asbestos or with a basis of asbestos and magnesium carbonate, yarn or thread, cords or string, whether or not plaited, or woven or knitted fabric of subheading 6812.90 or from any subheading outside that group.

Monofilament or twine diameter of the gillnet shall not exceed 0,5 mm.

Monofilament or twine diameter of the bottom-set gillnet shall not exceed 0,5mm.

The carrying on board or the use of any towed net constructed wholly or in part in the cod-end of single twine netting materials having a twine thickness of more than 3,0 millimetres shall be prohibited.

Rules have also been laid down in relation to the structure of nets in terms of length, number of meshes, type of netting and thickness of the twine or thread used to make nets according to the area in which they are used.