RT Journal Article
T1 Historical Evolution of the Reconstructed Catches of Four Species of the Pagellus Genus for Two Large Marine Ecosystems
A1 Sanz Fernández, Víctor
A1 Gutiérrez Estrada, Juan Carlos
A1 Pulido Calvo, Inmaculada
AB Pagellus acarne, Pagellus bellottii, Pagellus bogaraveo and Pagellus erythrinus are sparids distributed throughout Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs), the Iberian Coastal region (25) and CanaryCurrent region (27). They are target species due to their important commercial value to local and international fleets from three different continents: Africa, Asia and Europe. Given the high exploitationinterest of these species, sustainable management of the resource is essential. For this reason, a keyelement for its implementation is the knowledge of the historical behaviour of catches by geolocalisedareas. To this end, marine catches reconstructed in total wet-weight tonnes from 1950 to 2014 from theSea Around Us database were analysed. A total of 2,058,172.60 tn of species of the Pagellus genus werecaught for the entire region, of which 83.20% (1,712,552.21 tn) corresponded to the Canary Currentarea and the remaining 16.79% (345,620.38 tn) to the Coastal Iberian area. The dominant area wasCanary Current; its catches were higher than those of the Coastal Iberian area, with an annual averagepercentage of 78.21%. Overall, the fishery showed a negative trend of −511.37 tn/year. In terms ofspecies, 61.52% of the catches were of Pagellus bellottii (1,266,219.36 tn), 20.04% of Pagellus sp (notidentified at species level, only to genus) (412,482.53 tn), 8.91% of Pagellus erythrinus (183,434.67 tn),6.74% of Pagellus bogaraveo (138,717.29 tn) and the remaining 2.78% of Pagellus acarne (57,318.74 tn).Our results suggest the existence of important variations in the reconstructed catches of the fourspecies analysed in two large marine ecosystems, showing an overall decreasing behaviour. CanaryCurrent was undoubtedly the region with the highest fishing pressure during the 65 years analysedand Pagellus bellotii was the dominant species in the Current Canary region and in the whole region.This multispecies analysis presented could help the development of sustainable management protocols by providing insight into the historical evolution and status of the reconstructed catches for largemarine ecosystems
PB MDPI
SN 2673-9976 (electrónico)
YR 2022
FD 2022-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21082
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21082
LA eng
NO Sanz-Fernández, V., Gutiérrez-Estrada, J. C., & Pulido-Calvo, I. (2022). Historical Evolution of the Reconstructed Catches of Four Species of the Pagellus Genus for Two Large Marine Ecosystems. In SIBIC 2022. SIBIC 2022. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/blsf2022013053
NO This research was funded by the Government of Spain Ministry of Science, Innovation andUniversities with a FPU fellowship, grant number (FPU17/04298)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 14 jul 2026