Squids caught by shrimp trawlers off the coast of Sergipe, northeastern Brazil
Kátia Meirelles Felizola Freire,
Josafá Reis-Júnior,
Roberta Aguiar Santos
Abstract:Shrimps are one of the main fishery resources caught in waters off the state of Sergipe and accounted for about 32.3% of the total catch in 2013 (Thomé-Souza et al., 2014). One of the main problems associated with shrimp trawlers is the impact of repetitive bottom trawling (Meenakumari et al., 2008) and the capture of a high number of juveniles of fish species of commercial interest, but also gastropods, sea stars, crabs, and cephalopods (Alverson et al., 1994;Keunecke et al., 2007;Silva Júnior et al., 2019).C… Show more
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