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This species is protected — fishing for it is prohibited.

Catching, keeping and selling it is prohibited. If it takes your hook, return it to the sea unharmed. Legal basis: 6/2 md. 6 – Çizelge 1

Spiny butterfly ray

Gymnura altavela

  • Kazıkuyruk vatoz
  • Kelebek vatoz
No-take
Family
Gymnuridae
Order
Myliobatiformes
Seas
Aegean Sea, Mediterranean
Spiny butterfly ray
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (Wikimedia Commons) · source

Legal status

Avlanması ve alıkonulması tamamen yasaktır.

Legal basis: 6/2 md. 6 – Çizelge 1 communiqué text

Entirely prohibited species

6/2 md. 6 – Çizelge 1

Catching and retaining it is entirely prohibited.

The table in our records

Minimum size
Prohibited
Maximum quantity
0 fish
Closed season
All year
Gear and method
Any recreational fishing method
Exception
If caught incidentally it is returned to the water unharmed

The article text is taken from the communiqué. The table above was carried into our own records from the relevant rows of the communiqué and may be abridged. The official publication is what binds. Official communiqué (PDF) →