{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-2107/article-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-2107/article-29.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2017/2107",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2017/2107 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2017 laying down management, conservation and control measures applicable in the Convention area of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), and amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1936/2001, (EC) No 1984/2003 and (EC) No 520/2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-2107",
  "path": "article/29",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Recreational fisheries of blue marlin and white marlin",
  "text": "1. A fisheries administration that has vessels in its fleet which are engaged in recreational fisheries of blue marlin and white marlin shall maintain a 5 % scientific observer coverage of blue marlin and white marlin tournament landings.\n2. In recreational fisheries of blue marlin a minimum conservation size of 251 cm lower jaw fork length shall apply.\n3. In recreational fisheries of white marlin a minimum conservation size of 168 cm lower jaw fork length shall apply.\n4. It shall be prohibited to sell or to offer for sale any part or whole carcass of blue marlin or white marlin caught in recreational fisheries.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 29(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy and Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/753), regs. 1, 7(26); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2017/2107/article/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:27.577018+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}