Standardized CPUE of blue shark caught by the French swordfish fishery in the south-west Indian Ocean (2007-2016)

The blue shark Prionace glauca is the main bycatch of the French swordfish-targeting longline fishery operating in the south-west Indian Ocean. Using observer and self-reported data collected aboard commercial longliners between 2007 and 2016, we propose for the first time a standardized CPUE series for blue shark for this fishery estimated with a lognormal generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) to be used for stack assessment.