Data collection and reporting for billfish, blue marlin, white marlin and round-scale spearfish
Article 29b
1. Member States shall implement data collection programmes that ensure the reporting of accurate billfish catch, effort, size and discard data to ICCAT in accordance with the ICCAT requirements for the submission of Task I and II data. 2. Member States shall submit to the Commission their billfish check sheets set out in Annex 1 to ICCAT Recommendation 18-05, including information on the actions they have taken domestically to monitor catches and to conserve and manage billfish. 3. The failure to report Task I data, including dead discards, for blue marlin, white marlin and round-scale spearfish in accordance with ICCAT Resolution 01-06 and ICCAT Recommendation 11-15 shall result in a prohibition of retention of those species.