Fisheries and management perspectives of the goose barnacle "Pollicipes pollicipes" of Galicia (NW Spain)

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Author	Vila, José Molares Freire, Juan
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	The goose barnacle, Pollicipes pollicipes, occurs in the Northeast Atlantic from around 48oN at Britain (France) to 14oN at (Senegal) (Barnes, 1996). Commercial fisheries have been developed in several countries, but except for a short local consumption, most of the production goes to the Spanish market (Girard, 1982; Cruz, T, 2000), where price can reach 90 euros () / kg. Pollicipes pollicipes is a intertidal cirripede that lives attached to rocks in very exposed shores forming dense aggregations (Molares, 1993). This species has a metapopulation structure, with adult subpopulations sharing a common larval pool. The stock-recruitment relationship rarely holds in this kind of resource at the subpopulation scale. Advection of larvae depends largely of oceanographic conditions that govern larval transport and survival. Goose barnacle harvesting technique is simple but very risky: during low tide, fishers separate animals from rock surface with a scraper (Pérez, 1996).
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