Not all tag-recapture data are appropriate for growth analysissince some of the necessary information may be missing or unreli-able. Thus, a set of screening criteria (Appendix A) was determinedby the Secretariat of Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) andonly the data that met all the screening criteria were included inour analysis. The last of the criteria is not definitive, but rather cau-tions about using data from recaptures prior to tag recovery teamsbeing put aboard vessels (April 2007).