Table 2. Pairwise F_ST values (below the diagonal) and p-values (above the diagonal) between the 6 stocks currently recognized by the RFMOs.

	MED	NATL	SATL	IN	NPAC	SPAC
MED	0.003	<0.001*	<0.001*	<0.001*	<0.001*	<0.001*
NATL	0.035*	0.004	0.783	<0.001*	<0.001*	<0.001*
SATL	0.033*	0.001	0.000	<0.001*	<0.001*	<0.001*
IN	0.038*	0.010*	0.008*	0.002	0.125	0.038*
NPAC	0.049*	0.025*	0.022*	0.002	-	0.405
SPAC	0.051*	0.026*	0.023*	0.003*	0.001	0.004

Stock abbreviations: MED (Mediterranean), NATL (North Atlantic), SATL (South Atlantic), IN (Indian), NPAC (North Pacific) and SPAC (South Pacific). F_ST values among locations within stocks are shown on the diagonal, and none of them were significant (p-value > 0.05).

* significant p-value (<0.001)