Abstract
The Galician estuaries (rías) do not manage to increase the fishing yield, in spite of the fact that they are ecosystems of great biological production. Therefore, one of the measures to be taken is the implantation of artificial reefs (AR). They attract fish from neighboring areas and/or increase the area colonized by epifaunal species. An important task is to plan the layout of the different modules that will make up a reef to obtain the greatest biological and economic profitability. Therefore, it is necessary to predict equilibrium states between benthic and nektonic communities in different geographical areas.
In the present work, a possible general pattern of colonization of an artificial reef is established, during the first five years of its development in the Ría de Ares-Betanzos. It is based on the official statistics of artisanal fishing, of commercial species of the benthic, demersal and pelagic communities unloaded in the fish markets of the area under study.
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The work carried out is part of the research project “Design and production of an artificial reef module for the protection and rehabilitation of coastal ecosystems in the autonomous community of Galicia”. CN-10MMA003CT; Program INCITE Programs Sectoriais PEME I + D and R & D SUMA Xunta de Galicia.
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Rodriguez Guerreiro, M.J., Alvarez-Feal, J.C., Fraguela-Formoso, J.Á., Castro Santos, L., Carral Couce, L.M. (2020). Application of a General Pattern of Colonization of a “Verde-PROARR”-Artificial Reef in the Ría de Ares-Betanzos (Spain). In: Carreño Moreno, V., Vega Saenz, A., Carral Couce, L., Saravia Arenas, J. (eds) Proceeding of the VI International Ship Design & Naval Engineering Congress (CIDIN) and XXVI Pan-American Congress of Naval Engineering, Maritime Transportation and Port Engineering (COPINAVAL). CIDIN COPINAVAL 2019 2019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35963-8_31
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