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Annotated list of fishes caught by the R/V ARQUIPÉLAGO off the Cape Verde archi...
Menezes, Gui M.; Tariche, Oksana; Pinho, Mário Rui; Duarte, Pedro N.; Fernandes, Ana; Aboim, Maria A.A prospective survey was carried out in October - November of 2000, in the Cape Verde archipelago, by the R/V ARQUIPÉLAGO. The main objective was to determine the species composition and relative abundance of the demersal fish resources living in the waters of the Cape Verde archipelago. A list of fishes caught with bottom longline during the survey is presented in this document, along with information about th...
Trends in the fishery and catch patterns of kitefin shark, Dalatias licha (Bona...
Machado, Pedro B.; Pinho, Mário Rui; Duarte, Pedro N.During the last two decades the Azorean fishing community has profited from the kitefin shark fishery which in the year 2000 generated an estimated revenue of approximately €12,500. This resource has been targeted mainly by small fishing vessels operating in the Azores archipelago since the late 1970s. The vulnerability of this species to exploitation has raised the concern about the impact of the fishery on th...
Staining techniques for ageing tope shark, Galeorhinus galeus (Linnaeus, 1758),...
Duarte, Pedro N.; Silva, Alexandre A.; Menezes, Gui M.; Pinho, Mário RuiA vertebrae sample of tope shark, Galeorhinus galeus (Linnaeus, 1758), stratified by sizeclasses,was used to test between different staining techniques of enhancing vertebral growth ring visibility. Four techniques were tested: alizarin red, silver nitrate and cobalt nitrate staining, and the “deep-coned vertebrae” technique. The latter was discarded due to its unsuitability for tope shark vertebrae. The cobalt...