Bivalve Banks Monitoring
2020-06-08 (IPMA)
The Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA - Centro de Olhão) is carrying out, within the scope of the MONTEREAL project - Real-time monitoring of the hooker fleet. Implications for fleet, maritime space and biodiversity management, financed by Mar2020, a monitoring campaign for bivalve banks with the objective of assessing the conservation status of bivalve banks, which is essential to propose fishing quotas to the Fisheries Administration to be allocated by species and vessel in 2020/2021.
The campaign will take place on board the NI DIPLODUS between June and July and will cover the South and Western South fishing zones. Olhos d'Água, in the South, and between Sines and Lisbon, in the Western South. In this sense, a network of stations defined by profiles perpendicular to the coast line, spaced half / one mile apart. In each profile, 2-4 stations will be sampled, distributed between the bathymetric meters of 3 and 25 meters. In each station, two simultaneous hooks will be dragged, lasting 5 minutes and with a speed of approximately 2 knots.
In total, 904 samples will be collected, 530 in the South and 374 in the Western South.
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