CORAL SEA REGION BILLFISH ATLAS Seasonal distribution and abundance of billfish species around the Coral Sea Rim Solomon Islands Papua New Guinea Vanuatu
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Introduction Purpose of the atlas Plateaus, troughs and trenches Winds Currents Key to common billfishes Marlin characteristics Sexing billfish Species synopses Black marlin Blue marlin Striped marlin Sailfish Broadbill swordfish Seasonal catch-rates Seasonal catch-rates Black marlin Striped marlin Blue marlin Sailfish Broadbill swordfish Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Vanuatu Towards the future Comments on the data sheet Data sources and acknowledgments
Introduction Purpose of the atlas Plateaus, troughs and trenches Winds Currents Key to common billfishes Marlin characteristics Sexing billfish
Species synopses Black marlin Blue marlin Striped marlin Sailfish Broadbill swordfish
Seasonal catch-rates Seasonal catch-rates Black marlin Striped marlin Blue marlin Sailfish Broadbill swordfish Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Vanuatu
Towards the future Comments on the data sheet Data sources and acknowledgments
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Major geographic locations Major bathymetric features Seasonal wind pattern (January) Seasonal wind pattern (July) Seasonal current pattern (June) Seasonal current pattern (December) Sexing billfish Seasonal catch-rates Sample billfish data sheet Black marlin catch-rate Blue marlin catch-rate Striped marlin catch-rate Sailfish catch-rate
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