Conception, fabrication et mise à l’eau des DCP

Gervain, P., Reynal, L., Defoe, J., Ishida, M. et Mohammed

Les premières expérimentations de Dispositifs de Concentration de Poissons ancrés (DCP) dans la région caribéenne remontent à plus de trois...

Montage de DCP à moindre coût et gestion de programmes de mouillage

Lindsay Chapman, Brendon Pasisi, Ian Bertram, Steve Beverly, William Sokimi

Depuis l’adoption dans le Pacifique des DCP, dont l’idée était venue des Philippines à la fin des années 70, l’expérience de leur utilisation...

FAD design, construction and deployment

Paul Gervain, Lionel Reynal, Jullan Defoe, Mitsuhiro Ishida, Elizabeth Mohammed

It has been more than three decades since initial experimentation with the use of moored fish aggregating devices (FADs) in the Caribbean region. The main driver for development of FAD fisheries...

Vertical Jig Fishing on FADs

Clement Dromer

Jig fishing or Jigging is a technique developed in Japan. Jigging is the practice of fishing with a jig, a type of fishing lure. Jigs are intended to create a jerky, vertical motion through the...

Perspetivas futuras para o setor

Luís Costa, Gui Menezes, Genuíno Madruga, Luís Rodrigues, Gualberto Rita, Ruben Farias, Lázaro Silva

O Grupo de Trabalho para a Reestruturação das Pescas dos Açores surgiu no âmbito do Despacho n.o 492/2016, de 16 de março, de S. Exa. o Presidente do Governo...

Medidas estratégicas para o setor da pesca dos açores 2015-2020

Governo dos Açores

Nos Açores existem cerca de meia centena de comunidades piscatórias cuja principal fonte de rendimento provém daquilo que conseguem retirar do mar. Este é um...

Uma proposta para uma melhor proteção da área marinha em torno dos Açores

Governo dos Açores

A preservação dos diversos níveis e componentes naturais da biodiversidade, como vetor de uma política de desenvolvimento sustentável, tem adquirido uma...

Governance and management requirements for the off-shore fisheries

GMR Canarias

Report presenting fishers organizations in all outermost regions, their functioning and their role in collective action on the management of fisheries resources and governance of...

Governance and management requirements for the off-shore fisheries [spanish version]

GMR Canarias

Report (in spanish) presenting fishers organizations in all outermost regions, their functioning and their role in collective action on the management of fisheries resources and governance of...

Dispositivos para a concentraçao de peixes nos Açores. Archivos do DOP, Serie: Estudos n° 3/95

Pinho, M. R. & J. Pereira

Anchored fish aggregation devices (FAD) were evaluated as fish attractans in the Azores waters to determine if such objects could attract and hold tuna schools and other pelagic fish long enough to...

Anchored fish aggregating devices in Azorean waters, International Commission For The Conservation Of Atlantic Tunas, 45, 229-235

Pinho, M. R., & Pereira, J.

Anchored fish aggregation devices (FAD) were evaluated as fish attractans in the Azores waters to determine if such objects could attract and hold tuna schools and other pelagic fish long enough to...

Relatorio da experiencia de pesca ao peixe-espada-preto (Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839) levada a cabo pela embarcaçao "Baia dos Juncos" no Arquipelago dos Açores

Melo, Octávio Emanuel B. M.

This report is part of an observation work, carried out on board of a Madeiran vessel, to carry out a fishing experiment directed at Black Scabbardfish (Aphanopus carbo) in the archipelago...

Experimental fisheries for black scabbardfish (Aphanopus carbo) in the Azores, Northeast Atlantic. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68(2), 302-308

Machete, M., Morato, T., & Menezes, G.

In this study, we used fisheries observers' data to analyse and describe the experimental fishing of black scabbardfish in the Azores in terms of type of gear, fishing operation, catch per unit...

Pesca experimental com palangre de profundidade dirigido a grande pelagicos. Archivos do DOP, Serie: Cruzeiros, n° 1/95

Pinho, M. R. & J. Pereira

In the Azores, the catch of many pelagic species, particularly tunas, is seasonal and it is not known if this seasonally is due to real change in local abundance, or to changes in the catchability...

Projecto de Acompanhamento da Experiencia de Pesca Dirigida ao Peixe-Relogio (Hoplostethus atlanticus) - FISHOR. Arquivos do DOP, Serie Estudos n° 4/2002

Octávio Melo and Gui Manuel Machado Menezes

The objective of this project is to monitor the fishing experience of the peixe-relogio (Hoplostethus atlanticus) carried out by S. Macario in order to investigate the existence of...

Selectividade do anzol relativamente ao Pagellus bogaraveo (goraz) e ao Helicolenus dactylopterus dactylopterus (boca negra), pescado nos Açores, TA-183, 74 p

Paulo Jorge Morais

A bottom longline selectivity experiment was conducted, in June and July of 1989, in waters of Azores Islands. These experiments aimed at estimating hook selectivity, relative to blackspot seabream...

Pesca experimental de crustaceos de profundidade nos Açores (CRUSTAçO). Arquivos do DOP, Serie Relatorios Internos n° 2/2001, 82 p

Mario R. Pinho, Octavio Melo, Joao Gonçalves & Helen Martins

This work aims to increase knowledge on the biology and fishing of the macro-crustaceans of the Azores, mainly of the species of crabs (Cancer bellianus and Chaceon affinis) and...

Talla mínima de captura. Peces, Crustáceos y Moluscos de Interés Pesquero en Canarias. Una Propuesta Científica para su Conservación

González, J.A., J.G. Pajuelo, J.M. Lorenzo, J.I. Santana, V.M. Tuset, S. Jiménez, C. Perales-Raya, G. González-Lorenzo, P. Martín-Sosa & I.J. Lozano

El presente estudio ha tenido como finalidad principal la revisión, el análisis y la propuesta de regulación de la Talla Mínima de Captura (TMC) de 100 especies de...

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (thunnus thynnus, linnaeus, 1758) Fishery in the Canary Islands

Alicia Delgado de Molina, Enrique Rodriguez-Marín, Rosa Delgado de Molina and J. Carlos Santana

This document provides the first detailed description of the artisanal fishery of the Atlantic bluefin tuna in the Canary Islands, the most southerly fishery of this species in the eastern...

Estudio sobre la evaluación del impacto ambiental de la pesquería de atún rojo (thunnus thynnus) por parte de la flota pesquera con base en puertos de la comunidad autónoma de canarias, en comparación con el resto de flotas Nacionales

Brito A., Rodríguez A, Monterroso, O., M. Rodríguez, R. Riera, O. Pérez, E. Ramos, O. Álvarez

De conformidad con lo previsto en el artículo 17 del Reglamento 1380/2013 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 11 de diciembre de 2013 , sobre la política pesquera común,...

Participatory artisanal fisheries management in islands: application to the Canary Islands (Spain)

Serafin Corral, David Romero Manrique de Lara

Socio-economic development of small-island fishing communities is greatly dependent on local coastal and marine resources. However, illegal fishing and aggressive practices in insular ecosystems...

Evaluación histórica y socioeconómica de la pesquería de las cinco principales especies de túnidos en Canarias

Álvaro Díaz de la Paz, José J. Pascual Fernández, Carmelo Dorta Morales, Álvaro Díaz Rodríguez

Esta investigación recopila todo un amplio conjunto de evidencias, desde al menos dos siglos atrás, que demuestran la larga tradición de las pesquerías de túnidos...

La pesca artesanal y la conservación de la biodiversidad: avances en la gestión integrada de la pesca y el medio ambiente en el mar de Canarias

P. Martín-Sosa

Las políticas europeas para legislar en el ámbito marino han mejorado ostensiblemente en su capacidad de planificación y gestión integral del medio marino, aceptando...

Proyecto GEPETO: Gestión de Pesquerías y Objetivos Trasnacionales. Caso de estudio 7: Pesquerías Artesanales de las Islas Canarias, Tenerife

García-Santamaría, M.T. Jiménez Navarro, S. González Jiménez, J.F. Falcón Toledo, J.M. Villegas Díaz

Este documento presenta los objetivos, metodología aplicada y resultados obtenidos a lo largo del Proyecto, estructurados en tres partes definidas de manera independiente relacionadas...

Análisis y Ordenación de la Pesca de Recreo en el Ámbito de las Islas Canarias

Secretaría General de Pesca Marítima

La costa es un espacio imprescindible para el desarrollo de la sociedad canaria, bien porque en ella se encuentran múltiples recursos para la satisfacción de sus necesidades, bien...

La pesca recreativa en Tenerife y su regulación

José J. Pascual Fernández (Director), Inés Chinea Mederos, Agustín Santana Talavera, Pablo Martín-Sosa Rodríguez, Alberto J. Rodríguez Darias, Pedro E. Moreira Gregori

Hasta ahora la información cualitativa y cuantitativa contrastada sobre la pesca recreativa en Tenerife resultaba muy escasa. Cualquiera que transite por el litoral puede darse cuenta de que...

La Pesca en las Islas Canarias

Irina POPESCU, Juan José ORTEGA GRAS

La presente nota ha sido solicitada por la Comisión de Pesca para la Delegación enviada a las Islas Canarias (del 28 de abril al 1 de mayo de 2013). La nota proporciona un resumen del...

Fisheries around Outermost Regions: Canary Islands Report for the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, European Commission

P. Martín-Sosa

Main Fisheries Description and Catch Statistics of Canary Islands

Seminario Científico Estado de los Recursos Pesqueros de Canarias. Memoria Científico-Técnica Final Sobre el Estado de los Recursos Pesqueros de Canarias (REPESCAN)

González, J.A. (ed)

Del 19 al 21 de noviembre se ha celebrado el Primer Seminario Científico sobre el “Estado de los Recursos Pesqueros de Canarias (REPESCAN)”, lo que supone un hito...

High trophic level and low diversity: Would Madeira benefit from fishing down?

Margarida Hermida, João Delgado

This study offers a brief overview of the historical development of fisheries in Madeira since 1938. Changes in food web structure in the waters around Madeira archipelago were evaluated using the...

A Pesca na História da Madeira: Estado dos Conhecimentos e Problemáticas Futuras de Análise

Filipe Santos

This article aims to settle a state of the knowledge on the subject.

Fishing in the History of Madeira, based on historiographic, ethnographic and monographic studies made untilthe present...

Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for Madeira Island, Portugal from 1950-2010

Soohyun Shon, João Manuel Delgado, Telmo Morato, Christopher Kim Pham, Kyrstn Zylich, Dirk Zeller and Daniel Pauly

The reconstruction of total marine fisheries catches for the islands of Madeira for 1950-2010 added estimates of unreported subsistence and recreational catches, as well as discards to the reported...

Diretiva Quadro Estratégia Marinha. Estratégia Marinha para a subdivisão da Madeira

Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais

Avaliação inicial do estado ambiental atual das águas marinhas da subdivisão da Madeira, integrada na sub-região da macaronésia, e do impacto ambiental das...

Review of an assessment of the stock of black scabbardfish (Aphanopus spp.) around Madeira

Norman Graham, Hendrik Doerner

The report presented contains useful background information relating to the Madeira deep-water longline fishery for black scabbardfish (Aphanopus carbo). Updated data on landings (in...

Fisheries in Madeira

Jesús Iborra Martín

Document describing the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in Madeira for the delegation of the Committee on Fisheries visiting from 25-28 November 2008.

Research for PECH Committee - Fisheries in Madeira

Matilde Vallerani, Carmen-Paz Martí, Priit Ojamaa

The overview of the fisheries in Madeira was prepared to provide information for the mission of the Committee of Fisheries to Madeira in 2017 (22-25 May).

Updated fishery statistics for bigeye, skipjack and albacore tunas from Madeira Archipelago

Lídia Gouveia, Antonieta Amorim, Adriana Alves, Margarida Hermida

Tunas constitute an important seasonal fishery in the region of Madeira. Bigeye and skipjack are usually the most abundant species in the area, with albacore reaching record landings in 2014. This...

Contrasts in the marine ecosystem of two Macaronesian islands: A comparison between the remote Selvagens Reserve and Madeira Island

Alan M. Friedlander, Enric Ballesteros, Sabrina Clemente, Emanuel J. Gonçalves, Andrew Estep, Paul Rose, Enric Sala

The islands of Madeira and Selvagens are less than 300 km apart but offer a clear contrast between a densely populated and highly developed island (Madeira), and a largely uninhabited and remote...

Reproduction and growth of Aphanopus carbo and A. intermedius (Teleostei: Trichiuridae) in the northeastern Atlantic

J. Delgado, S. Reis, J. A. González, E. Isidro, M. Biscoito, M. Freitas and V. M. Tuset

Commercial fishery landings of the black scabbardfish, Aphanopus carbo, from the Madeira mid-water drifting longline fleet (northeastern Atlantic) were studied for 2 years within a...

Description of environmental issues, fish stocks and fisheries in the EEZs around the Azores and Madeira

Telmo Morato

For fishery resources in the EEZs around the Azores and Madeira, description of the main stocks and fisheries (differentiating between local, resident and others) within the EEZs, covering...

A synthesis on the Cenozoic vegetation in the Iberian Peninsula

Barrón, E., Rivas-Carballo, R., Postigo-Mijarra, J. M., Alcalde-Olivares, C., Vieira, M., Castro, L., Pais, J., Valle-Hernández, M.

The aim of this work is to provide a first approach to the evolution of Iberia's vegetation during the Cenozoic (with the exclusion of the Quaternary).

The Palaeogene was floristically...

Pandalidae shrimps in Madeiran waters

Manuel José Biscoito

Account of the species of the family Pandalidae recorded from Madeira is given. Heterocarpus grimaldii, Plesionika edwardsii, P. ensis, P. williamsi, P. martia and P. gigliolii are recorded for the...

Morphological identification of scabbardfishes

Biscoito, M., Delgado, J., González, J. A., Stefanni, S., Tuset, V. M., Isidro, E., Garcia-Mederos, A. Carvalho, D.

The black scabbardfish has been subjected to a commercial fishery in the waters of the archipelago of Madeira for more than 150 years, which is probably the oldest deep-sea commercial fishery in...

Fishery of black scabbardfish in Portugal mainland

Pedro Bordalo-Machado and Ivone Figueiredo

The black scabbardfish is a deep-sea teleost species with high commercial interest in the NE Atlantic. While it is caught by large offshore trawlers in the North of Europe, in the south it is...

Sea-surface signatures around Madeira

Caldeira, R. M. A., Groom, S., Miller, P., Pilgrim, D., Nezlin, N. P.

This is an introductory work that describes the manifestation of the island mass effect phenomena in the atmosphere and at the sea surface for a region of the ocean depleted from oceanographic work...

Deepwater fishing resources

Carvalho, D., J. Delgado, M. Biscoito, M. Freitas, J.A. González, J.I. Santana, V.M. Tuset, E. Isidro, M.R. Pinho & Consórcio PESCOPROF

O projecto, na linha do programa PESCPROF, perseguiu assim o objectivo último de, através da realização de estudos com objectivos específicos de trabalho...

Conservation status of the wolf spider Hogna ingens

Crespo, L. C., Silva, I., Borges, P. A. V., Cardoso, P.

The Desertas Islands (Madeira, Portugal) are the sole home of one of the largest and rarest wolf spiderspecies, Hogna ingens (Blackwall 1857) (Araneae,...

Monitorization of demersal species in Madeira

Delgado, J., Carvalho, D., Ferreira, S., Sousa, R., Chada, T.

Este relatório de campanha inclui o trabalho efectuado e os resultados preliminares obtidos durante o cruzeiro de monitorização de demersais realizado a bordo do N/I...

Stock assessment of Plesionika edwardsii

DSIDP

Este Relatório do Workshop de: “Avaliação de Stocks Insulares de Plesionika edwardsii em Canárias, Madeira e Açores”, foi efectuado no âmbito do...

Hotspot track of Madeira

Geldmacher, J., Bogaard, P. V. D., Hoernle, K., Schmincke, H.

The 40Ar/39Ar ages for 35 volcanic rocks and 14C ages for two charcoal samples from the Madeira Archipelago and Ampère Seamount (eastern North Atlantic) are presented.

The volcanic...

Origin and geochemical evolution of the Madeira-Tore Rise

Geldmacher, J., Hoernle, K., Klügel, A., Bogaard, P. v. d., Wombacher, F., Berning, B.

The Madeira-Tore Rise, located  700 km off the NW African coast, forms a prominent ridge in the east Atlantic. The age and origin of the rise are controversial. This study presents major and...

Biology and LPUE standardization of Aphanpus spp. commercial data

César Gomes

The black scabbardfish (Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839) is a benthopelagic species, member of the Trichiuridae family with great commercial and scientific importance in Madeira...

Fishery of Aphanopus carbo

Leonel Serrano Gordo

The black scabbardfish belongs to the Trichiuridae family characterised by: i) an extremely elongate and compressed body with a small forked or hair-like caudal fin; ii) strong teeth, fang-like in...

Monk-seal interaction with the fishing sector

Rebecca Louise Hale

The mediterranean monk seal has been classified as “critically endangered” by IUCN since 1960.

Once abundant throughout the Mediterranean, today there are less than 500 animals,...

Stock assessment of black scabbardfish

ICES

Black scabbardfish Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839 is a widely distributed species.

In the North Atlantic, the species occurs between 30oN and 70oN, from the strait of Denmark to...

Line Fishing for black scabbardfish

Rogélia Martins and Carlos Ferreira

Between 1980 and 1986 nine cruises were carried out on board the Research Vessel NORUEGA to study the black scabbardfish fishery in the eastern central Atlantic area around the island of Madeira to...

Paleobotany of Madeira

Carlos Alberto Góis Marques

After more than 150 years of paleobotanical investigations interregnum in Madeira Island, this dissertation aims to revive and present the history, location, inventory and review of the S. Jorge...

The archipelago of Madeira

Mata, J., Fonseca, P., Prada, S., Rodrigues, D., Martins, S., Ramalho, R., Madeira, J., Cachão, M., Silva, C. M., Matias, M. J.

O arquipélago da Madeira (30º-33ºN) ocorre no Atlântico oriental onde, conjuntamente com os Açores, Canárias e Cabo Verde, constitui a Macaronésia (do...

Design Optimisation and Implementation of Demersal Survey Cruises in the Macaronesian Archipelagos

Menezes, G., Delgado, J., Krug, H., Pinho, M. R., Silva, H. M., Carvalho, D.

This project was a continuation of a first project approved in 1994 (see Study 94/034) and most of the methodologies applied and work undertaken were similar.

This project implemented the...

The Critically Endangered Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus in the archipelago of Madeira

Pires, R., Neves, H. C., Karamanlidis, A.

The Mediterranean monk seal is categorized as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List and is in urgent need of effective conservation measures.

Following a steep decline in the 20th...

Monk-seals in Madeira

Rosa Pires

The history of the protection of the monk seal in the Desertas Islands is intimately linked with the history of Nature Conservation in the Autonomous Region of Madeira.

Starting out with an...

Sea floor spreading

Pitman, W. and Talwani, M.

The magnetic anomaly lineation pattern in the North Atlantic Ocean (between the latitudes of 15° N. and 63° N.) has been examined in light of the hypotheses of sea-floor spreading and plate...

Overview of the black scabbardfish fishing

Reis, S., Sena-Carvalho, D., Delgado, J. H., Afonso-Dias, M.

The black scabbardfish (Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839) is the most important resource exploited in Madeira Island (30º00’-33º10’N; 15º50’-17º20’W,...

Deepwater fishing resources [DSIDP]

DSIDP

Os arquipélagos macaronésicos da Madeira, Canárias e Açores, apresentam semelhanças no que respeita a algumas características geomorfologicas dos seus...