A review of the Japanese longline fishery for tunas and billfishes in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, 1981-1987

Nakano, Hideki and Bayliff, William H. (1992) A review of the Japanese longline fishery for tunas and billfishes in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, 1981-1987. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Bulletin, 20(5), pp. 185-355.

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Abstract

ENGLISH: This report reviews the activity of the Japanese longline fishery in the eastern Pacific Ocean during the 1981-1987 period, extending the studies for the 1956-1980 period made by other investigators. The spatial and temporal distributions of fishing effort, catch, apparent abundance, sexual maturity, and size composition are examined for the principal species of tunas and billfishes taken by that fishery. The interaction between the surface and longline fisheries is discussed. SPANISH: En este informe se presenta un repaso de la actividad pesquera de barcos palangreros japoneses en el Océano Pacifico oriental durante el periodo de 1981-1987, extendiendo los estudios del periodo de 1956-1980 realizados por otros investigadores. Se examinan las distribuciones especial y temporal de les fuerzo de pesca, la captura, la abundancia aparente, la madurez sexual, y la composición por talla de las principales especies de atunes y picudos capturadas por dicha pesquería. Se comenta la nteracción entre las pesquerías de superficie y palangrera. (PDF contains 171 pages.)

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