Scientific data on Tuna and Billfish in the South Pacific region and their use in Fisheries resource management policy

Introduction, the fisheries, locally based fisheries, industrial fisheries, DWFN fisheries, the pole and line fishery, the purse seine fishery, the longline fishery, the South Pacific albacore fishery, avilability of data on tuna fisheries, SPC, DWFNs, Pacific island nations, other scientific data, extra regional scientific linkages, status of stocks, skipjack tuna, yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna, albacore tuna, other tuna species, billfish, future data needs and implicaitons for resource management policy, references