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Spain Freezer bottom trawl shrimp fishery - Guinean waters
Fishery  Fact Sheet
CECAF Fisheries Reports 2011
Spain Freezer bottom trawl shrimp fishery - Guinean waters
Fact Sheet Citation  
Crevettiers congélateurs espagnols
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Fishery life cycleThis fishery terminated on 2008.

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Overview: The fishery targeted the deep water rose shrimp P. longirostris, which constituted the 57% of the catches during the period 1998-2007. A. varidens accounts for the 10%, while a mixture of other crustaceans does it for the 26%. Finfish and cephalopods only constituted the 6%, both together. These shrimpers used to alternate the use of outriggers and the classic bottom otter trawl with trawl doors (“baka” type), depending on the target species. Thus, outriggers were used to fish P. longirostris usually during daylight hauls, while the classic bottom otter trawl with trawl doors was employed for a deeper fishery, especially targeting A. varidens in deep hauls usually made at night. This Spanish shrimp fishery in Guinean waters was closed in 2008, at the end of the Agreement for the period 2004-2008. Last fishery agreement, signed in 2009, does not include this type of fishery

Location of Spain Freezer bottom trawl shrimp fishery - Guinean waters
 

Geographic reference:  Spain
Spatial Scale: National
Reference year: 2011
Approach: Fishing Activity

Fishing Activity
Fishing Gear: Single boat bottom otter trawls  
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Type of production system: Commercial; Industrial
Fishery Area: Guinea; Atlantic, East …

Seasonality: All year long, …

Harvested Resource
Target Species: Deep-water rose shrimp
Associated Species: Striped red shrimp; Scarlet shrimp; Giant red shrimp …  
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Means of Production
Vessel Type: Stern trawlers freezer
Fishery Indicators
Nominal Effort: Number of vessels
Participation: Number of fishermen
Production: Catch total; Catch P. longirostris; Catch A. varidens

History
 
The Spanish shrimper fishery started in Guinea in 1995. It continued until 2008, through fishing agreements between the Republic of Guinea and the EU. The fleet was quite reduced, with a maximum number of 10 vessels in 2004. These vessels operated intermittently in Guinean waters, usually sharing EU licences with other countries as Guinea Bissau, Senegal or Mauritania.
Fishing Activity
Type of production system: Commercial; Industrial   

Fishery Area
Climatic zone: Tropical.   Bottom type: Soft bottom.   Depth zone: Shelf (50 m - 200 m); Slope (200 m - 1000 m).   Horizontal distribution: Neritic.   Vertical distribution: Demersal/Benthic.  

Geo References for: Guinea

The Guinean EEZ is located in the inter-tropical zone and it is subjected to the existence of two main seasons that depend on the winds and rainfalls regimes (Morize, 1997). The Guinean continental shelf is seasonally impacted by several processes that contribute to its enrichment. On one hand, the north western area is influenced by waters from the Mauritanian-Senegalese upwelling system, induced by different water masses supplied by the Canary Current and the trade winds, that leads to a high biotic production during the dry season. This upwelling is very active in the North from January to May, but weakens from June to November. On the other hand, the coastal area is influenced by terrigenous supplies transported by rain, after being reshuffled or not in the mangroves (Morize, 1997; Colomb & Le Fur, 2002; Diallo et al., 2004). Both enrichment processes contribute to a high biological diversity and important biomasses of plankton, invertebrates and commercial fishes (Diallo et al., 2004). The great extensions of mangrove areas, the rain intensity and the alternation of the dry and rainy seasons are the main factors contributing the concentration of great fish richness in the coastal fringe between 0 and 12 miles (Domain, 1989; Fontana and Morize, 1995).
Resources Exploited
Deepwater rose shrimp - Guinea-Bissau
Deepwater rose shrimp - Guinea
Striped red shrimp - Gulf of Guinea
West African geryon - Gulf of Guinea
Other resources: Stock of deep water rose shrimp Guinea Bissau-Guinea, aristeidae, plesionika shrimps
Vessel Type
Stern trawlers freezer
Flag State
Spain

Average characteristics during the last years of the fishery (period 1999-2006) were 26 m length, 99 GRT and 403 h.p.
Catch Handling and Processing Equipment
Freezing. Shrimps were classified in commercial categories (from 0 to 8), depending on their size.
Crew
15-18 persons (Spanish, Mauritanian and Senegalese nationalities) (2009)
Fleet segment
Bottom otter trawl targeting crustaceans with minimum 40 mm mesh size

The fleet was exclusively composed of freezer shrimper trawlers, based at the Port of Huelva (SW Spain).
Fishing Gear
Single boat bottom otter trawls

These shrimpers usually alternate the use of outriggers and the classic bottom otter trawl with trawl doors (“baka” type), depending on the target species. Thus, outriggers were used to fish P. longirostris usually during daylight hauls, while the classic bottom otter trawl with trawl doors was employed for a deeper fishery, especially targeting A. varidens and C. maritae in deep hauls usually made at night.
Seasonality
All year long, some vessels combining with other fishing grounds
Trip Duration
30-90 fishing days
Ports
Huelva (SW Spain)
Fishery Indicators
TypeMeasureValueUnitTime period
Nominal EffortNumber of vessels 7vessels2007
ParticipationNumber of fishermen 100-125persons2008
ProductionCatch total130tonnes2003-2007
Catch P. longirostris77tonnes2003-2007
Catch A. varidens17tonnes2003-2007
Post Harvest
 
Fish Utilisation
Wholesale and exportation
Markets
Huelva (SW Spain)
Management
Management unit: No

Jurisdictional framework
Management Body/Authority(ies): Ministère de la Pêche et de l'Aquaculture
Mandate: Management; Control and surveillance.  
Area under national jurisdiction: Guinea
Maritime Area: Exclusive Economic Zone Areas (EEZ).  
Management Body/Authority(ies): European Union
Mandate: Flag state responsibility for its fishing vessels operating in foreign area under national jurisdiction.  
Area under national jurisdiction: Guinea
Maritime Area: Exclusive Economic Zone Areas (EEZ).  
Legal definition
Shrimp trawlers
Management Regime
Last legal definition was the Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Guinea for the period 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2008 (OJ L 127, 29.04.2004, p. 31-32). Management measures of the Spanish shrimp fishery were included in the Fishery Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (OJ L 127, 29.04.2004, p. 31-32) into the fishing category “shrimp trawlers”.
Management Methods

Conservation and management measures with focus on Effort control (licences system) and catch control

  • Aquatic species-related measures
    Limitation of by-catches: 15% of finfish and 10% cephalopods of the total catches
  • Gear-related measures
    Mesh size (minimum 40 mm).
  • Vessel-related measures
    Access control: Vessel size (1 500 GRT per month, averaged over the year for Spain)
  • Fishing activity-related measures
    Access by nationality, licences (renewable licences, for periods of 3, 6 or 12 months), vessel number (1 050 GRT per month, averaged over the year for Spain) and closed area (in waters into 10 nautical miles from the coast-line).
Related Fisheries - Fishing activity(ies) managed under the same management unit or being ruled by the same fishing agreement
Spain Trawlers cephalopods fishery - Guinean waters
Status and Trends
 
The fishery was closed at the end of the Agreement in 2008. The last fishing agreement signed with Guinea in 2009 does not contemplate this fishery.
Source of Information
 
Colomb, A. and J. Le Fur, 2002. Revue des connaissances sur l’environment des resources halieutiques de Guinée. Actes du symposium intrenational, Dakar /Senegal), 24-28 juin 2002. Pp: 399-404.
Diallo, I., I. Cissé and A. Bah, 2004. Modèle trophique du système côtier du plateau continental guinéen. In: West African Marine Ecosystems: models and fisheries impacts. Ed: Palomares and Pauly. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 12(7). Pp: 113-123.
Domain, F., 1982. Répartition de la biomasse globale du benthos sur le plateau continental ouest africain de 17ºN á 12ºN: densités comparées liées aux differents types de fond. Rapp. P.-v. Reun. J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer 180:335-336.
FAO, 2005. Report of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal resources- Subgroup South. Cotonou, Benin, 13-21 September 2005. CECAF/ECAF Series. FAO. Roma (in press).
FAO, 2006. Report of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal resources. Conakry, Guinea, 19-29 September 2003. CECAF/ECAF Series 06/67. FAO. Rome: 357 pp.
FAO, 2008. Report of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal resources- Subgroup South. Freetown, Sierra Leona, 6-18 October 2008. CECAF/ECAF Series. FAO. Roma (in press).
Fontana, A. and E. Morize, 1995. Projet Protection et surveillance des pêches de la ZEE guinéenne (Volet scientifique), Rapport de fin d'étude. Références: Convention République de Guinée-Caisse Française de Développement du 18 décembre 1991, Convention: Ministère guinéen de l'Agriculture - ORSTOM du 30 juin 1992.
Morize, E., 1997. Environnement hydro-climatique de la ZEE Guineenne et influence sur la ressource et son exploitation. In : Contribition a l’etude des ressources halieutiques de la ZEE Guineanne et a leur exploitation.Centre National des Sciences Halieutiques de Boussoura. Document Scientifique Nº 29. Pp: 1-22.
Official Journal of the European Union, 2004. Protocol setting out fishing possibilities and the financial compensations established by the Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Government of the Republic of Guinea on fishing in deep waters off the Guinean coast for the period from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2008. OJ L 127, 29.04.2004, p. 31-32.
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