22nd Regular Session of the Scientific Committee

Annex I of the Commission’s Rules of Procedure defines ‘Northern stocks’ to be ‘stocks which occur mostly in the area north of 20° north parallel’. Stocks designated by the Commission as Northern stocks are ‘northern Pacific bluefin, northern albacore and the northern stock of swordfish’.

• ^ Pacific bluefin tuna
• ^ North Pacific albacore 
• ^ North Pacific swordfish