Beth Fulton, Dale Kolody, Rich Little, Fred Pribac, Robin Thomson, Sally Wayte (CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart, Australia), Billy Ernst, Carolina Minte-Vera, Ivonne Ortiz (School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA), Shelton Harley (Dalhousie University), Kevern Cochrane (FAO), David Die (University of Miami) and Victor Restrepo (ICCAT) are thanked for their extensive comments on an early (and evidently poorly written) draft of this manual.
