studies must include all important fisheries. At the 

 present time integrated broad-scale studies of bill- 

 fish have not been conducted, nor are they appar- 

 ently underway. 



This situation may be due in part to the lack of a 

 well-defined set of goals or objectives for billfish 

 research. Such a set of goals would necessarily 

 have to be responsive to the different needs of the 

 various user sectors of the fishery for billfish. To 

 define these objectives and goals there needs to be 

 an international platform for the discussion of these 

 goals and objectives, a platform in which the proper 

 questions can be framed and asked. By asking the 

 proper questions, such goals and objectives, which 

 are responsive to the needs of all individuals, com- 

 munities, and nations, can be formulated. 



There are a number of platforms which can serve 

 as a mechanism for formulating an integrated ap- 

 proach to billfish studies but it would indeed be 

 unfortunate if we did not take advantage of this 

 Symposium to discuss the subject. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The authors wish to express their gratitude to the 

 Director of the Far Seas Fisheries Research 

 Laboratory, Osamu Kibesaki, for allowing us to 

 utilize certain of their preliminary data. Special 

 gratitude is also extended to Akira Suda and 

 Susumu Kume of the same laboratory for their as- 

 sistance in preparing the data for analysis. 



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