Update of standardized CPUE for blue shark caught by the Japanese tuna longline fishery in the Atlantic ocean

The standardized CPUEs for blue shark caught by the Japanese tuna longline fishery in the Atlantic Ocean were updated using filtered logbook data during 1971-2012 whose reporting rates were more than 80%. Blue shark CPUE shows some fluctuations and relatively increasing trends since 1994 in the North, South and whole Atlantic stock hypotheses.