Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Catch, Effort and National/Regional Data Sets
Fisheries in the Canary Islands, Spain
Michael Melnychuk1, Sylvie Guénette1,Pablo Martín-Sosa2 and Eduardo Balguerías2
1Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
2Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Santa Cruz de TenererifeAbstract
This report briefly describes the fishery around the Canary Islands, Spain. Given that fisheries data are not routinely collected in the Canaries, the results we present here come from a partial survey of the year 1982, in accordance to the law passed in 1979 ordering evaluation of stocks and determination of the fleet capacity for the Canarian fishery. Since the survey covered only eight months of the year, we summarize the results of the landings survey, and propose a minimal estimate of the catch for the whole year.