Poultry, Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences
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Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Brasilia, Brazil

Publications

• Research Article   
  Impacts of Climate Variability on the Pink Shrimp (Penaeus subtilis) Fishery on the Amazon Shelf
  Author(s): Walter Hugo Diaz Pinaya*, Rodrigo Campos, Breno Portilho de Sousa Maia, Zelia Maria Pimentel Nunes and Bianca Bentes
  
  Bottom shrimp trawling on the Brazilian Amazon shelf is historically recognized by the environmental impacts and with the advent of technologies for detecting and locating shoals, the effects of using bottom trawls are even more intense. Thus, and considering the relationship of shrimp catches with climatic and oceanographic events, increasingly the nets operating along the coast of the Brazilian Amazon account for a greater number of dead organisms at sea. Our results show that direct or indirect, small, and medium scale events, such as sea surface temperature, the duration and intensity of the Amazon River hydrological cycle and the field of trade winds, as well as large scale events, like ENSO and heat flux in the Atlantic Ocean, interact with the shrimp fishery dynamics in the study area. The need for ways to control the impacts generated by fishing nets is evident, and the effort.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2375-446X.22.10.214

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