Biota Neotropica ISSN: 1676-0611
[email protected] Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade Brasil Olinto Branco, Joaquim; Freitas Júnior, Felipe; Lindsey Christoffersen, Martin Bycatch fauna of seabob shrimp trawl fisheries from Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil Biota Neotropica, vol. 15, núm. 2, 2015, pp. 1-14 Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade Campinas, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=199138841006 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Biota Neotropica 15(2): 1–14, 2015 www.scielo.br/bn article Bycatch fauna of seabob shrimp trawl fisheries from Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil Joaquim Olinto Branco 1, Felipe Freitas Ju´nior 1 & Martin Lindsey Christoffersen 2,3 1Universidade do Vale do Itaja´ı, Centro de Cieˆncias Tecnolo´gicas da Terra e do Mar, Floriano´polis, SC, Brazil. 2Universidade Federal da Para´ıba, Departamento de Sistema´tica e Ecologia, Joa˜o Pessoa, PB, Brazil. 3Corresponding author: Martin Lindsey Christoffersen, e-mail:
[email protected] BRANCO, J.O., FREITAS JU ´ NIOR, F., CHRISTOFFERSEN, M.L. Bycatch fauna of seabob shrimp trawl fisheries from Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. Biota Neotropica. 15(2): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10. 1590/1676-06032015014314 Abstract: Marine communities in tropical regions contain a great diversity of species that play key roles in ecological processes. The observed bycatch fauna in artisanal fishing for the seabob shrimp Xiphopenaeus kroyeri (Heller, 1862) in the southwest Atlantic exceeds the quantity of commercial shrimp captured.