Review of the statistical data and fishery trends for billfish

PURPOSE
To provide the Working Party on Billfish (WPB) with a review of the status of the information available on billfish species in the databases at the IOTC Secretariat as of July 2013, as well as a range of fishery indicators, including catch and effort trends, for fisheries catching billfish in the IOTC area of competence. It covers data on nominal catches, catch-and-effort, and size-frequency.