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EMPAFISH Booklet nº 2 Fishery regimes in Atlanto-Mediterranean European MPAs

gill-netting for bottom and pelagic fishes, purse-seining for juvenile
pelagics and pole-and-line fishing for larger pelagic predators. Spear
fishing and mollusc collection (limpet, barnacle, crab and octopus) are
also common.

Area Gear Seasonality Target Species Bycatch Species No. of
Vessels
IR - - - - -
Inside
GR - - - - -
Hand line Year-round Epinephelus Raja spp.,
marginatus, Galeorhinus galeus,
Serranus atricauda, Pagellus acarne,
Pagellus bogaraveo, Balistes capriscus
Outside Polyprion americanus,
Conger conger,
Phycis phycis,
Helicolenus
dactylopterus 97
Gillnet Year-round Sparisoma cretense, Diplodus vulgaris,
Outside Sphyraena viridensis, Mugilidae,
Sarda sarda Sarpa salpa
Purse seine Year-round Trachurus trachurus Pagellus bogaraveo,
Outside
Sardina pilchardus
Pole and Year-round Seriola spp., Balistes capriscus
Outside
line Pseudocaranx dentex

Bibliographic references:

Carreira G.P., Gonçalves J.M. & Nash R.D.M., 2002. Exploitation of octopus in the Azores (NE
Atlantic): current status and experimental fishery. Bulletin of Marine Science 71 (2):
1116.
Morato T., Guenette S. & Pitcher T.J., 2001. Fisheries of the Azores (Portugal), 1982-1999.
Fisheries impacts on North Atlantic ecosystems: catch, effort and national/regional data
sets. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9 (3): 214-220.
Morato T., Solà E., Grós M.P. & Menezes G., 2003. Diets of thornback ray (Raja clavata) and tope
shark (Galeorhinus galeus) in the bottom longline fishery of the Azores, north-eastern
Atlantic. Fishery Bulletin 101 (3): 509-602.
Nash R.D.M. & Santos, R.S., 1998. Seasonality in diel catch rate of small fishes in a shallow-water
fish assemblage at Porto Pim bay, Faial, Azores. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 41

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