Grenada indicated that its Fisheries Department had been consulting with fishers involved in the offshore longline fishery in an effort to reduce by-catch of Atlantic swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in accordance with the ICCAT Swordfish Stock Rebuilding Programme.

They are: marlins,18 of which there are nine species (Tetrapturus angustirostris, T. belone, T. pfluegeri, T. albidus, T. audax, T. georgei, Makaira mazara, M. indica and M. nigricans), with one or more species found in every ocean; sailfishes, with two species, Istiophorus platypterus, formerly restricted to the Indian and Pacific Oceans but now found in the Mediterranean Sea where it entered via the Suez Canal, and I. albicans, found in the Atlantic Ocean and migrating in the Mediterranean Sea; and swordfish (Xiphias gladius), found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.