![]() ![]() ![]() An analysis of discards and damage will be useful for the adoption and assessment of the discard mitigation strategies for this fishery (Bellido et al., 2011). A basic tenet of the ecosystem approach to fisheries management is that harvesting should be conducted with minimal impact on juveniles, non-target species, and marine habitats. In the area of study, there is a lack of scientific information about of some aspects of the wedge clam fishery with hand dredge: discard structure and composition, and damage caused to specimens during the fishing and the manipulations. They depend upon size and weight of the gear as well as fishing practice and ecosystem. The physical and biological impacts in the communities are variable. In general fishing trawling is one of the most impactful fishery activities on the seabed. Several measures for the control of fishing and protection of this valuable economical resource were established in order to maintain its sustainability: licenses (the protect area Doñana NP has a specific license regulation), daily quota, a minimum size limit and a closed season (Silva et al., 2014). The hand dredge wedge clam fishery has been regulated by the Andalusian autonomic government since 2008. trunculus constitutes a very important fishing resource due to its high economic value and has been exploited over the last decades using primarily either artisanal hand-operated dredges (rastros manuales) in shallow water and commercial boat-operated dredges from subtidal to deeper waters. Small scale fisheries represent one of the main types of fisheries occurring in the area with a high socioeconomic importance. Within the framework of the research project VENUS, the aim of this communication is to provide a first insight of the discards associated with the artisanal hand dredging fishery targeting wedge clam Donax trunculus Linnaeus, 1758 in the sandy beaches at littoral of Huelva, in the south west of Spain. Oceanographic Center of Cádiz, Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Spainįacultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain ![]()
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