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This document is a catalog of billfish species published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in 1985. It provides descriptions, drawings and accounts of the two billfish families containing a total of 12 species, including marlins, sailfishes, spearfishes and swordfish. For each species, the catalog includes scientific and common names, habitat, biology, fisheries information, and distribution maps. The catalog is intended to provide comprehensive identification of billfish species caught in marine fisheries worldwide.

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This document is a catalog of billfish species published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in 1985. It provides descriptions, drawings and accounts of the two billfish families containing a total of 12 species, including marlins, sailfishes, spearfishes and swordfish. For each species, the catalog includes scientific and common names, habitat, biology, fisheries information, and distribution maps. The catalog is intended to provide comprehensive identification of billfish species caught in marine fisheries worldwide.

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FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Volume 5 FIR/S125 Vol.

FAO SPECIES CATALOGUE


VOL. 5. BILLFISHES OF THE WORLD

AN ANNOTATED AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE


OF MARLINS, SAILFISHES, SPEARFISHES
AND SWORDFISHES KNOWN TO DATE

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME


FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Volume 5 FIR/S125 Vol.5

FAO SPECIES CATALOGUE

VOL. 5 BILLFISHES OF THE WORLD

An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue

of Marlins, Sailfishes, Spearfishes and Swordfishes Known to date


MarIins,

prepared by

Izumi Nakamura
Fisheries Research Station
Kyoto University
Maizuru
Kyoto 625, Japan

Prepared with the support from the


United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Rome 1985
The designations employed and the presentation
of material in this publication do not imply the
expression of any opinion whatsoever on the
part of the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations concerning the legal
status of any country, territory. city or area or
of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation
of its frontiers or boundaries.

M-42
ISBN 92-5-102232-1

All rights reserved . No part of this publicatlon may be reproduced.


stored in a retriewal system, or transmitted in any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwase, wthout the prior
permission of the copyright owner. Applications for such permission,
with a statement of the purpose and extent of the reproduction should
be addressed to the Director, Publications Division, Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100
Rome, Italy.

FAO 1985
- - iii -

"Then the fish came alive, with his dead in


him, and rose high out of the water showing all his
power and his beauty. He seemed to hang in the
air above the old man in the skiff. Then he fell
into the water with a crash that sent spray over
the old man and over all of the skiff” (from The
Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway). I
do hope for the eternal prosperity of these beauti-
ful and powerful animals in our water planet.

PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

The present publication was prepared under the FAO Regular Programme with the support of the United
Nations Development Programme as part of the UNDP/FAO Global Project on Survey and Identification of the
World’s Marine Fishery Resources (GLO/82/001). It is the fifth worldwide species catalogue issued under the
FAO Fisheries Synopses series.

The author is one of the foremost authorities on billfish taxonomy (see Nakamura, I., 1983) and has also had
a long field experience on the biology and fisheries of these species. He has prepared, in the course of the past
seven years, all FAO species identification sheets so far published on this group (Western Centra1 Atlantic,
Eastern Central Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean).

The index of scientific and vernacular names was prepared in collaboration with FAO's Fishery Information,
Data and Statistics Service.

Most illustrations were redrawn from draft material provided by the author.

Technical Editor: W. Fischer, Fishery Resources and Environment Division, FAO

Illustrators: P. Lastrico (principal illustrator) and O. Lidonnici, FAO, Rome

ABSTRACT

This is the fifth in the FAO series of worldwide annotated and illustrated
catalogues of major groups of organisms that enter marine fisheries. The present
volume includes the two families and all 12 species of billfishes known so far. It
provides a comprehensive and illustrated key to families and species, with a glossary of
technical terms and measurements. Within each family are given individua1 accounts
of species which include drawings, scientific and vernacular names, information on
habitat, biology and fisheries, and a distribution map. The section including family and
species accounts is followed by a table indicating the distribution of each species by
major marine fishing areas. The work is fully indexed and there is ample reference to
pertinent literature.

Distribution: For bibliographic purposes this document should


be cited as follows:
Author
FAO Fisheries Department N a k a m u r a , I . , F A O s p e c i e s c a t a l o g u e . Vo1.5.
FAO Regional Fisheries Officers 1985 Billfishes of the World. An anno-
Regional Fisheries Councils tated and illustrated catalogue of
and Commissions marlins, sailfishes, spearfishes and
Selector SM swordfishes known to date. FAO
Fish.Synop., (125)Vo1.5:65 p.

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