Mobulid rays
Article 33
1. Union fishing vessels shall not fish for mobulid rays ( Mobulidae family, including the genera Manta and Mobula ) and shall not retain on board, tranship, land, store, offer for sale or sell any part or whole carcass of mobulid rays, except where the fish caught are consumed directly by the fishers’ families (‘subsistence fishery’). However, mobulid rays that are unintentionally caught through artisanal fishing (fisheries other than surface fisheries, i.e. purse seines, pole and line, gillnet fisheries, handline and trolling vessels, or longline fisheries undertaken by vessels registered in the IOTC record of authorised vessels) may be landed for purposes of local consumption. 2. All fishing vessels, other than those engaged in subsistence fishery, shall promptly release mobulid rays alive and unharmed, to the extent practicable, as soon as they are seen in the net, on the hook or on the deck, in a manner that will result in the least possible harm to those specimens.