Résumé
Within the IOSSS-ESPADON project (http://wwz.ifremer.fr/lareunion_eng/Projects/IOSSS-ESPADON), an atlas of the drifting longline fishery in the Indian Ocean has been achieved. It summarizes since 1950 the history of the longline fishery in the Indian Ocean in terms of fishing efforts and catches of swordfish. This Atlas also synthesized the evolution since 1994 of the La Réunion longline fishery activity (fishing efforts, catches and yields for the main targeted species).