“…As recreational fisheries have grown rapidly in developing countries such as Brazil, recent discussions have highlighted the importance of improving monitoring and assessment frameworks in data‐poor situations (Arlinghaus et al., ; FAO ), due to the impacts shared with commercial fisheries (Arlinghaus & Cooke, ; Coleman, Figueira, Ueland & Crowder, ; Cooke & Cowx, , ; Motta et al., ). Thus, in this study, the hypothesis that a species highly targeted by anglers, C. parallelus , moves between two densely populated areas close to the coast, where the fishing tourism is an important activity but the rules for recreational fisheries are different among states/provinces was tested.…”