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| Marine Resource Fact Sheet |
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| Caribbean spiny lobster - Los Testigos and La Blanquilla islands, Margarita island, 1992 |
 | Caribbean spiny lobster - Between 11.38021° N and 11.83365° N and 63.11774° E and 64.60785° E, Los Testigos and La Blanquilla islands, Margarita island |
| | Data Ownership | | This document provided, maintained and owned by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) , is part of WECAFC Stock Status Reports data collection. |
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| Related observations | Locate in inventory | | | | Species: | | FAO Names : en - Caribbean spiny lobster, fr - Langouste blanche, es - Langosta común del Caribe |
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| VEN | Venezuela |
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| Main Descriptors | Considered a single stock: No Spatial Scale: Regional
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| Considered a single stock: A group of individuals in a species occupying a well defined spatial range independent of other stocks of the same species. It can be affected by random dispersal movements and directed migrations due to seasonal or reproductive activity. |
| Spatial Scale: Spatial scale contains a standard term such as Global, Regional (e.g. for the whole Atlantic), sub-regional (e.g. for a part of the Atlantic), national, local (for sub-national levels). |
| Considered a management unit: An aquatic resource or fishery is declared as [Fishery] Management Unit if it is effectively the focus for the application of selected management methods and measures, within the broader framework of a management system. According to the FAO Glossary for Responsible Fishing, "a Fishery Management Unit (FMU) is a fishery or a portion of a fishery identified in a Fishery Management Plan (FMP) relevant to the FMP's management objectives." FMU's may be organised around fisheries biological, geographic, economic, technical, social or ecological dimensions , and the makeup and attribute of a fishery management unit depends mainly on the FMP's management objectives. |
| Jurisdictional distribution: Jurisdictional qualifier (e.g. "shared", "shared - highly migratory") of the aquatic resource related with its spatial distribution. |
| Environmental group: Classification of the aquatic resource according to the environmental group (e.g. pelagic invertebrate, or demersal fish) to which the species belong. |
| | | | | | Habitat and Biology Climatic zone: Tropical. Bottom type: Coral reef; Soft bottom clean sand. Depth zone: Shelf - Deep shelf (100 m - 200 m). Horizontal distribution: Littoral; Neritic. Vertical distribution: Demersal/benthic. Geographical Distribution Jurisdictional distribution: Shared between nations Geo References  | | Geographic extent of Caribbean spiny lobster - Los Testigos and La Blanquilla islands, Margarita island
| Exclusive Economic Zone Areas (EEZ) | VEN: Venezuela |
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The following area codes have been found as intersecting the distribution of Caribbean spiny lobster - Los Testigos and La Blanquilla islands, Margarita island Resource Structure Considered a single stock: No Biological State and Trend Exploitation state: Fully exploited Bibliography “FAO/Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission. Report on the FAO/DANIDA/CFRAMP/WECAFC Regional Workshops on the Assessment of the Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus) Belize City, Belize, 21 April - 2 May 1997 and Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 1 -12 June 1998” 2001 FAO Fish Rep No.619 FAO  http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/X9186E/X9186E00.HTM |
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