2015 Blue Shark Data Preparatory Meeting

The meeting was held in Tenerife, Spain, 23-27 March 2015. The major meeting objective was to revise all available data (catch, effort, size and tagging) aiming for the Atlantic stock assessment session in July. The results of several cooperative efforts led by national scientists to gather and analyse data were presented, including analysis of size data by sex and region for the main fleets operating in the Atlantic and a detailed review of all available life history information.