Fishery biology of the swordfish (Xiphias gladius, Linnaeus 1758) caught by surface longliners based in Itajaí, southern Brazil

The Xiphias gladius (Linnaeus, 1758) data used in the present study were obtained from commercial fishing cruises of the pelagic longline fleet based in Itajaí, operating in the Southwest Atlantic. For the Covariance models, fishing effort (number of hooks) and catches (kg) were pooled and categoriz...

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Main Authors: Ana Lia Campos Quaggio, Rosângela P. T. Lessa, Jorge Eduardo Kotas, Celson F. Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2011-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Oceanography
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-87592011000200006