You can now download the report State of Marine Recreational Fisheries in Catalonia 2023 in the Publications section
Marine recreational fishing is a non-professional activity practiced for leisure by approximately 350 million people worldwide. Despite being one of the most popular coastal leisure activities globally, there is a historical lack of knowledge about its impacts, as well as a general lack of data collection, sampling and assessment systems for the activity. For this reason, ICATMAR launched a continuous monitoring program for marine recreational fisheries in Catalonia in 2020. The goal of the program is to compile a time series of data on catches and species records to provide a reliable and robust information source for decision-making in potential management strategies.
In this report, which you can download from the Publications section, the results of the continuous monitoring of marine recreational fisheries in Catalonia conducted by ICATMAR during 2023 are presented, comparing them with the period 2020-2022. In the different sections, you will find, among others, indicators for the different fishing modalities practiced in the region, namely shore angling, boat angling, and spearfishing. Additionally, you can also download a drop-down summary with the main results of the report in Catalan.
