Review of the statistical data and fishery trends for tropical tunas (2013)

PURPOSE
To provide the Working Party on Tropical Tunas (WPTT) with a review of the status of the information available on tropical tuna species in the databases at the IOTC Secretariat as of September 2013, as well as a range of fishery indicators, including catch and effort trends, for fisheries catching tropical tunas in the IOTC area of competence. It covers data on nominal catches, catch-and-effort, size-frequency and other data, in particular release and recapture (tagging).