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Figure 16. Interpolation of fishing effort (hours) for the Brazilian fleet (grouping trawlers. Double trawling is aimed at catch- The analyzed records referring to the
the years from 2013 to 2021) operating with purse seines in the Brazilian EEZ ing shrimp (shrimp-shrimp, pink shrimp tracking of the Brazilian bottom trawl fleet,
and white shrimp). Simple trawling is ded- between the years 2013 and 2021 resulted
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50 0’0 W 45 0’0 W 40 0’0 W icated to catching fish from the Scianidae in the greatest efforts between the border
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15 0’0’’S 15 0’0’’S family. From the 2000s onwards, with the between Brazil and Uruguay to the north
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advance of demersal fishing by both fleets of Rio de Janeiro, especially in areas with
to areas of the external shelf and slope, depths of up to 100 meters. From Ilhéus
the direction is observed in the south and in Bahia to the vicinity of Salvador, another
southeast regions for species such as hake area of operation of this fleet was identi-

(Merluccius hubbsi), toadfish (Lophius gas- fied, as well as from the east coast of Pará
trophysus), deep-sea hake (Urophycis mys- to the east of Amapá, from the coast to
20 0’0’’S 20 0’0’’S tacea), Argentine squid (Illex argentinus) areas approximately 50 meters deep (Fig-
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and deep-sea cock (Zenopsis conchifera) ure 18). Vessels from this fleet in northern
(VALENTIN & PEZZUTO, 2006). Brazil are mainly directed to shrimp.
Figure 17. Trawl towed by only one vessel, showing its meshes,
cables, ports and bag

25 0’0’’S 25 0’0’’S
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Trawl ship

Atlantic
Ocean
Mouth
Bag Cape Master opening
30 0’0’’S 30 0’0’’S
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Sweeper Cables
Isobath 200m
Isobath 100m
Isobath 50m
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Bottom Drag
Fishing Efforts (hours) cable cables
Value
35 0’0’’S High : 1497 35 0’0’’S
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Wing Drag
Low : 0,01 Doors
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50 0’0 W 45 0’0 W 40 0’0 W
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0 130 260 520 780 1.040 1.300
Kilometers Source: Modified from Sarmiento-Natafé et al. (2017)
Source: Authors based on Global Fishing Watch (2022)
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