Species Identification Guides

Atlantic Ocean

• Mobula rays (English, French)

• Tuna and tuna-like species (ICCAT)

• Sharks-1 (ICCAT)

• Sharks-2 (ICCAT)

Indian Ocean

• Tuna and tuna-like species (IOTC)

• Tuna and tuna-like species of the Bay of Bengal (FAO / Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation)

• Billfish (IOTC)

• Sharks and rays (IOTC)

• Marine turtles (IOTC)

• Seabirds (IOTC)

• Mobula rays (Bahasa/Malay, Chinese, English, Tagalog, Taiwanese)

Pacific Ocean

• Sharks (SPC)

• Turtles (SPC)

• Seabirds (AFMA)

• Billfish, sharks, rays, tuna-like and non-tuna finfish in the WCPO (WCPFC - Photographic ID guide)

• Non-target fish species taken in WCPO purse seine fisheries (Photographic ID guide)

• Mobula rays

  • Eastern Pacific (English, Korean, Spanish, Taiwanese)

  • Western & Central Pacific (Bahasa/Malay, Chinese, English, Tagalog, Taiwanese)

INDONESIA

• Tuna species

VIETNAM

• Tuna species

Yellowfin & Bigeye Tuna (all regions)

• Handbook for the Identification of Yellowfin and Bigeye Tunas — Fresh Condition
  For fishermen and observers who see live or fresh condition tuna as for trollers, handliners, pole-and-line fishermen and onboard observers

Bahasa
English
French
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
Vietnamese

• Handbook for the Identification of Yellowfin and Bigeye Tunas — Brine Frozen Condition
  For port samplers who deal with identifying tuna from purse seine vessels at unloading
  Bahasa
  English
  French
  Japanese
  Korean
  Spanish

• Handbook for the Identification of Yellowfin and Bigeye Tunas — Fresh but Less than Ideal Condition
  For observers and port samplers who have to deal with identification of tuna in poor condition, with little color, markings, and damaged fins, as on docks or in fish markets

  Bahasa
  Chinese
  English
  French
  Japanese
  Korean
  Spanish
  Vietnamese