Last updated on 12 April 2018
SCIENTIFIC NAME(s)
Prionace glauca
SPECIES NAME(s)
Blue shark
The stock structure is not clearly understood but, based on tagging data, a distinct stock of blue shark is considered to exist in South Pacific besides the North Pacific with demarcation near the equator (Kleiber et al., 2009; Sippel et al., 2011; ISCTTS, 2013).
Within FishSource, the term "fishery" is used to indicate each unique combination of a flag country with a fishing gear, operating within a particular management unit, upon a resource. That resource may have a known biological stock structure and/or may be assessed at another level for practical or jurisdictional reasons. A fishery is the finest scale of resolution captured in FishSource profiles, as it is generally the scale at which sustainability can most fairly and practically be evaluated.
ASSESSMENT UNIT | MANAGEMENT UNIT | FLAG COUNTRY | FISHING GEAR | ||
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South Pacific Ocean | IATTC | Belize | Longlines | ||
Portugal | Longlines | ||||
Spain | Longlines | ||||
WCPFC | Spain | Longlines |
No related FIPs
No related MSC certifications
International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean (ISCTTS), 2013. Stock assessment and future projections of Blue shark in the North Pacific Ocean, Shark Working Group,82pp. http://isc.ac.affrc.go.jp/pdf/ISC13pdf/Annex%2011-%20Blue%20shark%20assessment%20-%20Final%20(SEPT).pdf
Kleiber, P., S. Clarke, K. Bigelow, H. Nakano, M. McAllister, and Y. Takeuchi. 2009. North Pacific blue shark stock assessment. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo., NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-17, 74 pp. http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/tech/NOAA_Tech_Memo_PIFSC_17.pdf
Sippel, T., Wraith, J., Kohin, S., Taylor, V., Holdsworth, J., Taguchi, M., Matsunaga, H., Yokawa, K. 2011. A summary of blue shark ( Prionace glauca ) and shortfin mako shark ( Isurus oxyrinchus ) tagging data available from the North and Southwest Pacific Ocean, ISC/11/SHARKWG-2/04, 7 pp. http://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/CR/2011/2011Sippel.pdf
Blue shark - South Pacific Ocean