Bioecologia de espécies do gênero Stellifer (Pisces, Sciaenidae) acompanhantes na pesca artesanal do camarão sete-barbas, na Armação do Itapocoroy, Penha, Santa Catarina, Brasil

Abstract

The fishery of sea-bob-shrimp Xiphopenaeus kroyeri with over-trawl nets with doors used by artisanal fishery is considered an efficient method for the capture of the target specie along the Brazilian Cost. However, it presents a low selectivity and captures a high amount of the demersal and benthonic fauna that are know as accompanying fauna. Among these, is frequently found that they of the target species, the fish of the genus Stellifer. Therefore, this study, aimed to determine the bioecological characteristics of fishes of this captured in fishing held in the Armação Itapocoroy, Penha, Santa Catarina, in two ways: in the first chapter, analyzing the population structure and the reproductive aspects of the species Stellifer rastrifer, Stellifer stellifer e Stellifer brasiliensis exploited in in the period of from april/2006 to march/2007 and, in the second chapter, assessing the annual and monthly abundance distributions of the exploited Stellifer spp. populations during the years of 1996 2006.