Bruce (Chair IUCN SSC Tuna & Billfish Specialist Group National Museum of Natural History) Collette, John (Chair Virginia Institute of Marine Science) Graves
Christopher E. (Professor and Coordinator of Fisheries Wildlife and Conservation Biology North Carolina State University) Moorman, Steven M. (University of California Davis) Grodsky, Susan Rupp
J. Bastow (University of Otago New Zealand) Wilson, Andrew D. Q. (Aberystwyth University) Agnew, Stephen H. (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Canberra) Roxburgh