Abstract
The dolphinfish fishery has constituted and still constitutes an essential part of the Maltese fishing economy. This species appears seasonally in Maltese waters from May-June to December-January, with a peak in October. The fishing techniques used by the Maltese fishermen are still artisinal and concentrate on the juvenile stage of this species present in Maltese waters between August and November. Local research on this species goes back to the 1960s but has not been consistent since then, so more research is required.
Highlights
The dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus, Linnaeus1758), called lampuka in Malta, is a species of primary economic importance for the Maltese fishing industry
Its high fecundity provides abundant quantities of juveniles between August and November in the Mediterranean (Massutí and Morales-Nin, 1997). In this region dolphinfish is caught in the swordfish (Xiphias gladius) fishery with drifting long-liners and in the small pelagic fishery via purse seine, but for the Maltese it constitutes an important and historic part of Maltese artisanal fishing (Galea, 1961)
Due to the importance of this fishery to the Maltese Islands, Galea (1961) was amongst the first to undertake a study of this fishery in the Mediterranean, while Bannister (1976) incremented the biological knowledge through length-weight and stomach content analyses for this species
Summary
SUMMARY: The dolphinfish fishery has constituted and still constitutes an essential part of the Maltese fishing economy. This species appears seasonally in Maltese waters from May-June to December-January, with a peak in October. The fishing techniques used by the Maltese fishermen are still artisinal and concentrate on the juvenile stage of this species present in Maltese waters between August and November. Local research on this species goes back to the 1960s but has not been consistent since so more research is required
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