Stock assessment of swordfish in the SW Pacific, Takeuchi Y, G. Pilling and J. Hampton. Oceanic Fisheries Programme. The Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.
This paper presents the 2017 assessment of swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in the southwest Pacific Ocean (SWP). The model time period now extends to the end of 2015, adding a further four years of data since the last stock assessment was conducted in 2013. This assessment report describes all the analyses that provided inputs to the assessment, including the development of standardised CPUE analyses.