Download FAR 2022/60 Commercial catch sampling programme for highly migratory species in 2017–18, 2018–19, and 2019–20

Swordfish and tunas caught by tuna longline vessels are processed at sea, preventing the measurement of lengths in port samples, but individual processed weights of the catch are kept by fish processors that export, in a relatively whole state, these fish. Processed weights can be converted to lengths so that this project effectively augments observer length frequency data with estimates based on individual processed weights of fish landed by the domestic fleet for 2017-18 to 2019-20.