Recommendation by ICCAT amending the recommendation 19-04 amending recommendation 18-02 establishing a multi-annual management plan for Bluefin Tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean [Rec. 21-08] requires that each ICCAT Contracting Party, Cooperating non-Contracting Party, Entity or Fishing Entity fishing for eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna submit electronically to the ICCAT Secretariat, as part of its fishing plan, the list of traps authorized to fish east Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna.

The ICCAT Record of E-BFT traps contains the lists of traps authorized to be used to fish for, retain, transfer or land bluefin tuna by each CPC.