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statistics) take action to improve their data. The same holds true for the 

 billfishes. In addition to national data collection efforts, the 

 statistics cannot be effectively organized, disseminated, and evaluated 

 until regional institutions are organized to accomplish these tasks. 



IV. D. Status of SWFC Data Base 



Published billfish fishery statistics from Japan and Taiwan are in 

 the data base maintained at the Honolulu Laboratory, which also contains 

 data obtained through contacts with scientists in Japan and Taiwan, Data 

 from Korean longline operations, however, are lacking. Attempts should be 

 made to obtain these missing data and to improve the accuracy of data 

 collected. 



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