Identification of métiers in a multi-gear, multi-species fishery
Pedro Leitão, Margarida Castro, Aida Campos, Aldo Corriero, Aldo Corriero, Aldo Corriero · 2026
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Description
Pedro Leitão, Margarida Castro, and Aida Campos classify a 2026 portrait of Portugal's coastal fishing fleet, which mixes traps, nets, and longlines across roughly five hundred vessels catching some two hundred species. Managers need to know who fishes what, where, and how, a unit called a métier. Haul-by-haul detail came from electronic logbooks and sales notes covering 2014 to 2023.
The analysis resolved twenty-eight métiers across six main gear families, defined down to gear details, target species, area, and season. Octopus traps led the list, followed by hake gillnets and black scabbardfish longlines. Most métiers tied strongly to season, grounds, depth, and seabed type, with traps and nets concentrated in the north-west and longlines further south on steeper ground.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Pedro Leitão, Margarida Castro, Aida Campos, Aldo Corriero, Aldo Corriero, Aldo Corriero |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 74 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |