Importance of recreational shore angling in the archipelago of MadeiraPortugal (northeast Atlantic)

  1. Roi Martínez-Escauriaza 1
  2. Margarida Hermida 1
  3. Sebastián Villasante 2
  4. Lídia Gouveia 3
  5. Nuno Gouveia 3
  6. Pablo Pita 2
  1. 1 Oceanic Observatory of Madeira, Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação.
  2. 2 Campus Do Mar, International Campus of Excellence, Spain
  3. 3 Direção de Serviços de Investigação – DSI, Direção Regional das Pescas – DRP-RAM, Estrada da Pontinha,
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Journal:
Scientia Marina

ISSN: 0214-8358

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 84

Issue: 4

Pages: 331-341

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3989/SCIMAR.05046.30A DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

En 2017 se tramitaron un total de 4825 licencias para la pesca recreativa desde la costa en la Región Autónoma de Madeira. En este periodo se realizaron 734 encuestas a los pescadores de esta modalidad, algunas en las oficinas, durante el trámite necesario para obtener la licencia y otras a personas mientras estaban pescando. La pesca desde la costa es una actividad que se practica durante todo el año, principalmente los fines de semana y normalmente durante el día, con un au- mento de pescadores durante el verano. Más del 60% están desempleados o tienen bajos ingresos, y gastan en promedio 254 € por persona al año en esta actividad, contabilizándose un total de 1.16 millones de € por año. El numero medio de días de pesca por pescador al año fue de 65.1±62.0, mientras que la CPUE media fue de 0.35±0.26 kg/pescador/hora. La captura anual total estimada fue de 520.7 t, y se identificaron 43 especies de teleósteos, 2 de elasmobranquios y 6 de invertebrados en las capturas. A pesar de las limitaciones e imprecisiones inherentes a las encuestas, por primera vez se ha logrado obtener una valiosa información, que nos permite tener una percepción general de la pesca recreativa desde la costa en Madeira. El posible impacto sobre las especies más capturadas, como el sargo Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) y la vieja Sparisoma cretense (Linnaeus, 1758), debe ser analizado ya que están sujetos a una importante presión pesquera que podría afectar a sus poblaciones y al ecosistema.

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Thanks to all the anglers who contributed with their time and their responses to make this study possible. Thanks to Francesca Gizzi for helping in the revision and improving the manuscript and to Fernando Alexandre for the native English language revision. Roi Martínez-Escauriaza was financially supported by the Oceanic Observatory of Madeira Project (M1420-01-0145-FEDER-000001-Observatório Oceânico da Madeira-OOM). Margarida Hermida was financially supported by a postdoctoral grant from the Regional Agency for Development of Research, Technology and Innovation of Madeira (ARDITI), project M1420-09-5369-FSE-000001.

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