- Scientific name: Xiphias gladius
- In Spanish it is known as » Albacora o Pez Espada»
- Average size: 1,9 m.
- Main destination markets: United States of America and national market.
- Type of extractive fleet: Industrial and artisanal.
- Characteristics and distribution of the resource: Highly migratory pelagic fish with oceanic and cosmopolitan distribution. It is distributed between regions I and X, inside and outside the exclusive economic zone.
- Main processing lines: Fresh-refrigerated and frozen: headless gutted (H&G), fillet with and without skin.
