Brown shrimp (Penaeus subtilis) trawling in the northern coastal waters of Brazil is an industrial fishing activity with a share in the international market and an important resource in the fishery market. Due to the scarcity of updated information on this practice and owing to its complexity, it is difficult to have a measurement of all dimensions of the development of this fishery, whether they are ecological, economic, or social-institutional. The present paper uses an assessment tool focused on data-poor fishery systems, the Fishery Performance Indicators (FPIs), to assess the multidimensional conditions of this fishery. The indicators were assessed between 2019 and 2020, and the metrics were based on public official data, scientific publications, in loco consultations with production agents, and databases of research projects. Results showed that the critical points of this activity are primarily related to the ecological indicator (1.75), which obtained a lower score compared to other fisheries assessed using the same methodology. This is due to its low selectivity, which results in high by-catch volumes and discards. The limited participation of productive chain actors also restrains the efficacy of management measures, which hampers successful resource management. This issue maximizes other setbacks throughout the productive chain, such as economic and social factors.
The present study investigated the spatiotemporal changes in the structure of the population of the halftooth, Hemiodus unimaculatus (Bloch, 1794), in the area upstream from the Tucuruí hydroelectric dam on the Tocantins River, through quarterly samples obtained in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007. The variation in the total length and weight of the specimens was analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis test, with a 5% significance level, while the spatiotemporal variation in population parameters was evaluated using a cluster analysis and SIMPER. A number of changes were found in the population structure of H. unimaculatus, with an increase in population size, a shift in the proportion of juveniles and adults, and alterations of the spatial distribution of the fish. The lack of data on the species and its occurrence in the study area reinforce the need for the development of adequate management measures to avoid overfishing in the future.
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