The partnership agreement provides for fishing opportunities allocated to two types of vessel, 28 freezer tuna seiners and 10 French and Spanish surface longliners.

In order to protect spawning grounds and local small-scale fishing, the fishing area for Community vessels stretches up to 12 nautical miles from the coast for freezer tuna seiners, pole-and-line vessels and surface longliners, and up to 6 nautical miles from the coast in the case of freezer trawlers.

- Freezer tuna seiners: nine vessels, France,

Under the Protocol, the fishing possibilities allocated to the Community fleet in Senegalese waters are as follows: - trawlers (inshore demersal fishing for fish and cephalopods) not landing their catch in Senegal: 1 000 GRT/year, with the option of fishing with freezing facilities for 500 GRT; - ocean-going fish trawlers (deep-water demersal species) not landing their catch in Senegal and fishing for a period of four months; 4 000 GRT in each four-month period, with the option of fishing with freezing facilities for 1 000 GRT; - freezer trawlers (inshore demersal fishing for fish and cephalopods) landing and selling part of their catch in Senegal: 1 000 GRT/year; - freezer trawlers (inshore demersal fishing for fish and cephalopods) la ...[+++]nding part of their catch in Senegal and fishing over a four-month period specified for each vessel in an overall fishing plan to be notified to the Senegalese Government by the Community every six months: 2 000 GRT in each four-month period; - ocean-going shrimp freezer trawlers (demersal) not landing their catch in Senegal: 5 000 GRT/year; - pole-and-line tuna vessels: 11 vessels; - freezer tuna seiners: 47 vessels; - surface longliners: 6 vessels.

Gambia's exclusive economic zone, though of limited area given the country's minimal coastline, offers the same multiplicity of species as its enveloping neighbour, Senegal, with which the Community has initialled a fisheries agreement to cover the period 1 October 1986 to 28 February 1988, and where French, Spanish, Italian and Greek fleets in particular are engaged in fishing activities/.ANNEX 1 The Protocol provides for the following fishing opportunities: - Freezer tuna seiners: 48,500 GRT - Pole-and-line tuna vessels: 2,900 GRT (with possibility of increase to 3,500 GRT) Longliners (swordfish): 1,200 GRT Trawlers, fresh fish: 7,000 ...[+++]GRT Other vessels, fresh crustaceans: 570 GRT (at the request of the Community) Freezer shrimp trawlers: 2,325 GRT (with possibility of increase to 2,575 Freezer trawlers Freezer trawlers, other species: 10,500 GRT In order to protect fisheries resources in the Gambian zone, the agreement limits the trawler fleet's activities, setting the total number of fishing days at 1 900 for fresh fish and 3 100 for freezer trawlers, corresponding to an average of almost 65 days per vessel per year.

The Protocol with Guinea-Bissau provides for the following fishing rights: - freezer shrimp trawlers: 11 000 GRT per month, annual average; - freezer fin fish and cephalopod trawlers: 4 000 GRT per month, annual average; - freezer tuna seiners: 22 vessels; - pole-and-line tuna vessels and surface longliners: 10 vessels.