A short review on estuarine ichthyoplankton identification, description and growth is given. The need for qualitative, quantitative, horizontal and temporal distributions related to environmental factors, period and kind ...

Brachyura from 298 stations (Project decapod crustacens from the Rio Grande Coast – Rv “Atlântico Sul” – 1982-84) on the southern Brazilian shelf (31° 30 S – and 49°50 w – 52°30 w), between 8 and 200 m, were analyzed. Otter ...

Cassino’s Beach is one of the most popular surf casting recreational fishing ground of southern Brazil and king-fish(Menticirrhus spp) is the preferential target. This paper describes the profile of the fishermen that use ...

The Patos Lagoon, located in Southern Brazil, is the world's largest choked coastal lagoon with an approximately 151000 km2 watershed. It receives untreated domestic, agricultural and industrial wastes associated with the ...

Este trabalho analisou a distribuição espacial e a abundância relativa da ictiofauna ao longo do gradiente salino do Parque Nacional da Lagoa do Peixe. Em função de apresentar uma barra intermitente, que permite a entrada ...

The National Coastal Management Program – GERCO appears as a convergent factor among the main national policies for the environment and coastal zones (National Policy for the Environment – PNMA) and National Policy for ...

Uma pescaria de polvo em pequena escala se desenvolve nas águas rasas da plataforma da Área de Preservação do Arquipélago de Fernando de Noronha, localizado a 350 km da costa nordeste do Brasil. A população local de 3000 ...

The coastal demersal sciaenid Macrodon atricauda (Günther, 1880), formerly M. ancylodon (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) was sampled for ageing during four periods (1977–1979, 1984–1986, 1997–1998 and (2006–2009) in commercial ...

Octopus tehuelchus is a small octopus endemic to subtropical and temperate waters of the southwestern Atlantic continental shelf. Its reproductive biology was studied by examining 319 individuals, measuring 20 to 79 mm ...

Sea floor echosounding data obtained during seven scientific surveys were stored in the hydroacoustical database at the FURG Fishery Technology and Hydroacoustics Laboratory, for validation, analysis and interpretation. ...

One of the most problematic fishing methods in terms of by-catch and discarding is prawn-trawling. This paper analyses the incidental catch of an artisanal trawl fleet during two discrete Artemesia longinaris fishery seasons ...

Declining in landings of more valuable prawn species, such as pink prawns(Farfantepenaeus paulensis and F. brasiliensis), expanded the targets of double-rig ottertrawlers to other species such as Artemesia longinaris and ...

The sea-bob-shrimp Xiphopenaeus kroyeri (Heller, 1862) is a penaeid prawn widely distributed throughout the Western Atlantic, occurring from North Carolina (USA) to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The present work was motivated ...

The northward outflow of cold, dense water from the Weddell Sea into the world ocean basins plays a key role in balancing the global heat budget. We estimate the geostrophic flow patterns in the northwestern Weddell Sea ...

Arsenic distribution in sediments of the Mirim–Patos lagoonal system is investigated. Deposits of fresh water Mirim Lagoon and those of the fresh water part of the Patos Lagoon contain 2.5 and 7.7 mgkg 1, respectively, ...

Present study has continued the investigation on distribution of mercury in estuarine sediments of Patos Lagoon which began whilst assessing the after-effect of enormous accidental discharge of sulfuric acid into the ...

Biometric relationships of size and weight were estimated for the Argentinean prawn (Artemesia longinaris), a new commercial penaeid prawn exploited in the south-western Atlantic. Morphometric and meristic traits were ...

Na margem continental da região Sul do Brasil são encontrados alguns dos principais recursos pesqueiros do país, entretanto são poucos os estudos sobre a ecologia do ictioplâncton na região de quebra de plataforma. Este ...

As variações espaciais e sazonais da distribuição e abundância do ictioplâncton foram estudados na costa norte da Bahia. Amostragens foram feitas em 12 estações em maio/1993, setembro/1993, dezembro/1993 e março/1994. O ...

Distribution and abundance of fish larvae in the channel area of the Patos Lagoon, Brazil are reported. The Patos Lagoon is a shallow coastal lagoon with a very narrow connection with the Atlantic Ocean. Its southernmost ...