Table 1 Average trawling time (h y−1) and mean cumulative percentage of the area of the geographic cells trawled during 2012, 2013, and 2014, considering the different geographic regions of the Portuguese coast.

From: Deep-sea crustacean trawling fisheries in Portugal: quantification of effort and assessment of landings per unit effort using a Vessel Monitoring System (VMS)

Region

2012 h y−1

%

2013 h y−1

%

2014 h y−1 e

%

North-West

1.82

80

0.88

39

0.69

30

Central-West

2.36

104

1.78

79

1.74

77

South-West

5.13

226

3.91

173

5.84

258

South

11.93

527

11.21

495

10.26

453

  1. Only the impacted cells were considered to calculate these averages.
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