ICATMAR bottom trawl survey data in the NW Mediterranean (commercial and bycatch species)

Sampling event Observation
Versão mais recente published by ICATMAR on fev 27, 2026 ICATMAR
Publication date:
27 de fevereiro de 2026
Published by:
ICATMAR
Licença:
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Descrição

This dataset contains standardized abundance (individuals/km²) and biomass (kg/km²) data for marine demersal species collected through commercial bottom trawl surveys conducted by ICATMAR (Institut Català de Recerca per a la Governança del Mar) along the Catalan coast as part of the fisheries monitoring program.

Registros de Dados

Os dados deste recurso de evento de amostragem foram publicados como um Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), que é o formato padronizado para compartilhamento de dados de biodiversidade como um conjunto de uma ou mais tabelas de dados. A tabela de dados do núcleo contém 613 registros.

Também existem 2 tabelas de dados de extensão. Um registro de extensão fornece informações adicionais sobre um registro do núcleo. O número de registros em cada tabela de dados de extensão é ilustrado abaixo.

Event (core)
613
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
67754
Occurrence 
32951

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versões

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Como citar

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Ribera-Altimir, J., Martí-Comas, A., Puig-Capdevila, A., Santos-Bethencourt, R., Rojas-Garcia, A., Balcells-Surroca, M. (2026). ICATMAR bottom trawl survey data in the NW Mediterranean (commercial and bycatch species). www.icatmar.cat

Direitos

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O editor e o detentor dos direitos deste trabalho é ICATMAR. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

Este recurso foi registrado no GBIF e atribuído ao seguinte GBIF UUID: fafbf6ab-a219-464d-8783-940528298b66.  ICATMAR publica este recurso, e está registrado no GBIF como um publicador de dados aprovado por GBIF Spain.

Palavras-chave

Fisheries monitoring; Demersal fisheries; Bottom trawling; Mediterranean sea; Catalan coast; ICATMAR; Information Systems; Fisheries monitoring; Demersal fisheries; Bottom trawling; Mediterranean sea; Catalan coast; ICATMAR; Information Systems

Contatos

Aram Puig Capdevila
  • Ponto De Contato
  • Desenvolupador Backend
ICATMAR (CSIC-ICM)
Jordi Ribera Altimir
Aram Puig Capdevila
  • Ponto De Contato
  • Backend Developer
ICATMAR (CSIC-ICM)
Jordi Ribera Altimir
  • Ponto De Contato
  • Head of Information Systems
Adrià Martí Comas
  • Ponto De Contato
  • Backend Developer

Cobertura Geográfica

Surveys covered the major fishing ports along the Catalan coast in the North Western Mediterranean Sea (N GSA6). The sampling area extends from 40.32°N to 42.40°N latitude and 0.66°E to 3.62°E longitude.

Coordenadas delimitadoras Sul Oeste [40,324, 0,662], Norte Leste [42,395, 3,616]

Cobertura Temporal

Data Inicial / Data final 2019-01-16 / 2024-12-18

Dados Sobre o Projeto

The Directorate-General for Maritime Policy and Sustainable Fisheries of the Catalan Government and the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) promoted the Institut Català de Recerca per a la Governança del Mar (ICATMAR), an autonomous organization whose main goal is to generate scientific advice to regional, state and European administrations for management purposes. Since 2019, ICATMAR has developed and implemented a fisheries monitoring program that aims to complement the data collection protocol already in place, working at a local scale to gather information on spatial and seasonal variability of the factors that can shape fishing stocks dynamics.

Título Institut Català de Recerca per a la Governança del Mar
Identificador ICATMAR
Financiamento Trawl surveys were financed by European Maritime and Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) and the agreement between the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Catalan Government (BOE-A-2023-251060).
Descrição da Área de Estudo The study area comprises the entire Catalan coast, with 580 km of coastline, constitutes the northern half of the GSA 6, which in whole comprises from Cape Creus down to Cartagena (Resolution GFCM/33/2009/2). The spatial distribution of the fishing effort by port shows the local-scale structure of the Catalan bottom trawling sector: the fleet of each port fishes in waters directly off their port, and overlapping among influence areas of the different ports is low (around 10 % in fishing hours per km2, Mingote et al., in prep) and exists only among adjacent ports. We chose the 9 ports with the highest annual revenues which are also equidistant throughout the territory, attending to both hydrographic and geomorphological characteristics of the continental margin (shelf and slope). In the northernmost part of the Catalan coast, the continental shelf is cut by deep submarine canyons that allow for deep-sea fisheries activity while remaining relatively close to the coast. The coast between Arenys de Mar and Tarragona is characterized by the absence of submarine canyons and the influence of densely populated areas such as Barcelona, Vilanova i la Geltrú or Tarragona. The southernmost area of the coast is deeply affected by the discharge of the river Ebre, which generates a delta between L’Ampolla and La Ràpita. The division of the Catalan coast in these three zones responds to the morphometric mesoscale analysis of the margin and has been used in previous faunistic assemblage studies (Carreton M. et al. 2025).
Descrição do Design Sampling trips were carried out on board trawling fishing vessels, with no change to their usual fishing activity, over commercial fishing grounds. Each of the three sampling zones was sampled monthly, with a rotation among the three ports of each zone, resulting in one quarterly sampling at each of the 9 selected ports. This allowed for the monitoring of seasonal patterns throughout the year. Each sampling day included three experimental hauls on board the same vessel, each one at one of the three depth ranges previously explained, within the high-fishing effort areas of each port. Exceptionally, in 2019 and 2020, seven of the Southern zone hauls were conducted in the lower slope. The average depth for each haul was then estimated by calculating an average point between the start and end points of each haul. Mesh size was 40-mm square for all hauls except in Palamós lower slope, where the self-enforced local management measures for the blue and red shrimp fishery require a 50-mm squared mesh (BOE 2018, APM/532/2018). Each haul was GPS-recorded with a start and end point, fishing time and gear width. These measurements were used to calculate the total swept area per haul in order to standardize species biomass and abundance values. The sampling is designed to run a complete cycle throughout a calendar year so that the data are comparable annually, and the data analyzed in this study correspond to the years 2019–2021 (Carreton M. et al. 2025).

O pessoal envolvido no projeto:

Jordi Ribera-Altimir
Adrià Martí-Comas
Aram Puig-Capdevila
Ricardo Santos-Bethencourt
Adrià Olmo i Cerdà
  • Originador
Alberto J. Rico
Alexis Rossell Vela
Begoña Martínez López
Cristina López-Pérez
Eve Galimany
Ivan Ruiz Perez
  • Originador
Joan B. Company
Joan Sala-Coromina
Julia Cao Sánchez
Laia Viure
Laura Recasens
Mariona Panisello-Garriga
Marta Nadal Pla
  • Originador
Marta Pujol-Baucells
Mireia G. Mingote
Mireia Silvestre
Patrícia Poch i Isern
Xènia Puigcerver-Segarra

Métodos de Amostragem

Sampling trips were carried out on board trawling fishing vessels, with no change to their usual fishing activity, over commercial fishing grounds. Each of the three sampling zones was sampled monthly, with a rotation among the three ports of each zone, resulting in one quarterly sampling at each of the 9 selected ports. This allowed for the monitoring of seasonal patterns throughout the year. Each sampling day included three experimental hauls on board the same vessel, each one at one of the three depth ranges previously explained, within the high-fishing effort areas of each port. Exceptionally, in 2019 and 2020, seven of the Southern zone hauls were conducted in the lower slope. The average depth for each haul was then estimated by calculating an average point between the start and end points of each haul. Mesh size was 40-mm square for all hauls except in Palamós lower slope, where the self-enforced local management measures for the blue and red shrimp fishery require a 50-mm squared mesh (BOE 2018, APM/532/2018). Each haul was GPS-recorded with a start and end point, fishing time and gear width. These measurements were used to calculate the total swept area per haul in order to standardize species biomass and abundance values. The sampling is designed to run a complete cycle throughout a calendar year so that the data are comparable annually, and the data analyzed in this study correspond to the years 2019–2021 (Carreton M. et al. 2025).

Área de Estudo The study area comprises the entire Catalan coast, with 580 km of coastline, constitutes the northern half of the GSA 6, which in whole comprises from Cape Creus down to Cartagena (Resolution GFCM/33/2009/2). The spatial distribution of the fishing effort by port shows the local-scale structure of the Catalan bottom trawling sector: the fleet of each port fishes in waters directly off their port, and overlapping among influence areas of the different ports is low (around 10 % in fishing hours per km2, Mingote et al., in prep) and exists only among adjacent ports. We chose the 9 ports with the highest annual revenues which are also equidistant throughout the territory, attending to both hydrographic and geomorphological characteristics of the continental margin (shelf and slope). In the northernmost part of the Catalan coast, the continental shelf is cut by deep submarine canyons that allow for deep-sea fisheries activity while remaining relatively close to the coast. The coast between Arenys de Mar and Tarragona is characterized by the absence of submarine canyons and the influence of densely populated areas such as Barcelona, Vilanova i la Geltrú or Tarragona. The southernmost area of the coast is deeply affected by the discharge of the river Ebre, which generates a delta between L’Ampolla and La Ràpita. The division of the Catalan coast in these three zones responds to the morphometric mesoscale analysis of the margin and has been used in previous faunistic assemblage studies (Carreton M. et al. 2025).
Controle de Qualidade All data collected go through a validation workflow to ensure high quality in their analysis and publishing. Using the data input website to ingest onboard and laboratory sampling data allows having more control of the data, prevents defects and facilitates validation, data availability and system reliability. This database includes parametrized text fields and the numeric fields with data ranges. Different validations are performed during the data input workflow to trigger warnings and detect errors to prevent defects. Finally, the data are displayed in interactive maps and charts to perform visual validations. The interactive maps use the library Leaflet and the interactive charts use the library Chartjs v2.8. At the end of each season, R scripts are executed to check joint data completeness and perform a general data validation (Ribera-Altimir J. et al. 2023).

Descrição dos passos do método:

  1. The fishers sort the catch into two categories: commercial, i.e., individuals of commercial species to be sold in the fish auction, and discarded, i.e., all other organic and inorganic organisms and items. The discarded fraction includes individuals of non-commercial species and/or undersized or damaged individuals of commercial species – as well as natural debris and marine litter. All species of the commercial fraction, including fish, crustaceans and cephalopods among others, are identified and measured on board (total length, cephalothorax length and mantle length, respectively) (Carreton M. et al. 2025).

Citações bibliográficas

  1. Carreton, M., Galimany, E., Blanco, M., Garriga-Panisello, M., Colmenero, A. I., Balcells, M., Bustos, F., Mingote, M. G., López-Pérez, C., Nos, D., Puigcerver-Segarra, X., Pujol-Baucells, M., Ramírez, J. G., Ribera-Altimir, J., Rico, A. J., Rojas, A., Sala-Coromina, J., Santos-Bethencourt, R., Silvestre, M., … Company, J. B. (2025). Understanding the spatio-temporal variability of fisheries data for better bottom trawling management practices in the Catalan margin (NW Mediterranean Sea). Marine Policy, 172, 106512. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MARPOL.2024.106512
  2. Ribera-Altimir, J., Llorach-Tó, G., Sala-Coromina, J., B. Company, J., & Galimany, E. (2023). Fisheries data management systems in the NW Mediterranean: from data collection to web visualization. Database, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/DATABASE/BAAD067
  3. Blanco, M., Nos, D., Lombarte, A., Recasens, L., Company, J. B., & Galimany, E. (2023). Characterization of discards along a wide bathymetric range from a trawl fishery in the NW Mediterranean. Fisheries Research, 258, 106552. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.FISHRES.2022.106552

Metadados Adicionais

Acknowledgements
Identificadores alternativos 10.15470/89uh0e
https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=bottom_trawl_survey