Each Member State with a bluefin tuna quota shall regulate sport and recreational fisheries by issuing fishing authorisations to vessels for the purpose of sport and recreational fishing.

For sport and recreational fisheries no more than one bluefin tuna shall be caught per vessel per day.

Any bluefin tuna landed shall be whole, gilled and/or gutted. Each Member State shall take the necessary measures to ensure, to the greatest extent possible, the release of bluefin tuna, especially juveniles, caught alive in the framework of sport and recreational fishing.

The marketing of bluefin tuna caught during sport and recreational fishing shall be prohibited.

Each Member State shall record catch data including weight and length of each bluefin tuna caught during sport and recreational fishing and communicate the data for the preceding year to the Commission by 30 June each year. The Commission shall forward that information to the SCRS.

Each Member State shall count dead catches from sport and recreational fisheries against the quota it allocated in accordance with Article 7(1) and Article 18.