Weighing, an unmarketable catch and separate permissions

A Danish fishing vessel returns with a mixed catch from an operation that the skipper understands to be subject to the applicable landing rules. One lot is commercially unattractive, and a buyer suggests that this alone should have allowed it to be discarded. The available record for a separate lot says 120 boxes with an actual measured average net fish mass of 18 kilograms per box. A preliminary note had shown 2,000 kilograms, before the weighing evidence was available. The crew also has a valid maritime competency record and asks whether that record proves the vessel had sufficient fishing allocation. The skipper must keep the physical measurements, the covered-catch obligation and the separate permissions distinct without inventing a current legal tolerance percentage.