Célia M. Teixeira

MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre · Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa

The Portuguese coast is particularly adequate for studies on the impact of climate change on fisheries, as it has faced an increase in both air and sea surface temperature and a decrease in intensity and frequency of rainfall. Ecological responses to climate change have already been observed in Portuguese waters, with consequences in fisheries. Reg...

Portugal is the third highest per capita consumer of fish in the world, with a fishing fleet consisting of trawlers, purse-seiners and multi-gear vessels, which use a wide variety of fishing gears, such as gillnets, trammel nets, longlines or traps. Climate change affects ocean conditions, impacting marine organisms and ecosystems, with consequence...

Small pelagic fishes are particularly abundant in areas with high environmental variability (zones of coastal upwelling and areas of tidal mixing and river discharge), and because of this, their abundance suffers large inter-annual and inter-decadal fluctuations. In Portugal, the most important species in terms of landings are European sardine, Atl...

Climate change affects ocean conditions, which will in turn impact marine organisms and ecosystems, with consequences for fisheries. The Iberian Peninsula has faced an increase in both air and sea surface temperature, and rainfall has decreased in intensity and frequency in Portugal. As Portugal is the third highest per capita consumer of fish in t...

Fisheries are an important source of food, with a high economic value and social significance. The present worrying situation of the world fisheries is the result of the interaction between different factors (e.g. climatic variations, natural oscillations, technological innovation), but the greatest challenges are overfishing and climate change. Th...

Historically, small-scale fisheries (SSFs) have largely been overlooked by fisheries scientists and management authorities at national and international levels [...]

Marine coastal and transitional ecosystems are facing increasing impacts, and often reflect the most immediate effects of environmental change, habitat destruction, and biodiversity loss. With over half of the population currently living in coastal areas, these areas are of interest for multiple uses and resources, as well as subjected to multiple...

The high economic value of fisheries was historically associated to commercial teleost fishes. Since the 1970s, despite some elasmobranchs becoming an important target or a bycatch, relatively little research has been carried out on this group because of their low economic value. Due to their specific life history characteristics, sharks and rays a...

The implementation of food web criteria in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive context faces several difficulties, namely the lack of data for relevant taxa, the absence of operational indicators, and spatially and temporally limited datasets. This work aims to identify ecologically relevant scales in the Celtic Seas (CS) and the Bay of Biscay...

The beach‐seine fishery is a commercial fishing activity on the Portuguese coast, with reports dating as far back as the early 15th century. The main target species of this fishery are small pelagic fish such as Atlantic chub mackerel, Atlantic horse mackerel and sardine. To identify the best conditions for fishing the target‐species, catches of be...

The development and operationalization of Food-web indicators Descriptor 4 - Food-webs) in the MSFD context faces several difficulties, such as: lack of data for relevant taxa, absence of fully operational indicators, spatially and temporally limited datasets. This work aims to improve methodologies used to assess Food-webs by identifying relevant...

In the European Union, discards represent a major source of undocumented mortality, contributing to the overfishing of European fish stocks. However, little attention has been given by the scientific community to discards in the European Union’s small-scale fisheries (SSF). This is mainly due to the fact that discards are mostly generated by indust...

Abstract In the European Union, discards represent a major source of undocu-mented mortality, contributing to the overfishing of European fish stocks. However, little attention has been given by the scientific community to discards in European Union Small Scale Fisheries (SSF). This is mainly due to the fact that discards are mostly generated by in...

Small pelagic fishes are particularly abundant in areas with high environmental variability (zones of coastal upwelling and areas of tidal mixing and river discharge), and because of this, their abundance suffers large inter-annual and inter-decadal fluctuations. In Portugal, the most important species in terms of landings are European sardine, Atl...

Climate changes affect marine ecosystems and the survival, growth, reproduction and distribution of species, including those targeted by commercial fisheries. The impact of climate change has been reported for many fish species, but studies focusing on the effects of climate on bivalve resources are lacking. In Portugal, the harvesting of bivalves...

For each Portuguese fleet component, landings of biogeographic groups of fish species were compared for the period of 1993–2009. Wide-distribution species were the most abundant in landings, but have shown a decreas- ing trend. Temperate species had higher landings in trawl fisheries, whereas subtropical species were most abundant and exhibiting an...

Flatfishes represent an important resource in Portuguese fisheries. Although flatfish landings represent a low percentage of total fish weight landed, their importance is higher when commercial value is considered (11%). Official data on flatfish landings from 1992 to 2005 for all landing ports in Portugal were analysed, together with vessel charac...

The extent to which host biology, ecology and phylogeny determine the diversity of macroparasite assemblages has been investigated in recent years in several taxa, including fish. However, consensus has not been reached probably as a result of data being collected from different sources, different temporal scales or host and parasite biogeography a...

Common sole, Solea solea and Senegalese sole, S. senegalensis, were collected between January 2003 and June 2005 from commercial fishing vessels operating with gill-nets and bottom trawls along the Portuguese coast, to examine diet, age and growth and reproduction. Soles fed mainly on crustaceans, polychaetes and bivalves. Feeding activity was high...

Four flatfish species were collected between January 2003 and June 2005 from commercial fishing vessels operating with gill nets and bottom trawls along the Portuguese coast in order to examine feeding habits, age and growth and reproduction. Citharus linguatula (Linnaeus, 1758), Lepidorhombus boscii (Risso, 1810) and Microchirus azevia (de Brit Ca...

In this work we studied an artisanal fishery targeting mainly soles (Solea senegalensis and Solea solea) and cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) with trammel nets. Catches of target species, bycatches and discards were studied from October 2004 until August 2005 in the west coast of Portugal. A total of 37 sampling surveys onboard commercial fishing ves...

Flatfish fisheries are widely spread over the Portuguese coast and traditionally have a high social and economical relevance in some coastal communities. The artisanal multi-gear fleet is responsible for the largest share of flatfishes landings. However, only a fraction of these vessels actively target flatfishes, since many other species are caugh...

The recruitment variability of the marine fish species Dicentrarchus labrax, Platichthys flesus and Solea solea was evaluated in the Mondego estuary (Portugal) from 2003 to 2007. The relationships between sea surface temperature, NAO index, coastal wind speed and direction, precipitation and river runoff prior to the estuarine colonization and the...

Sand sole, Solea lascaris, were collected along the Portuguese coast, between October 2002 and July 2003, to examine feeding habits, age and growth and sexual cycle. The most important prey items were Mysidacea, Amphipoda and Polychaeta. Differences in diet according to season and length size were found: Amphipoda were very important in diet during...

The feeding ecology of the Channel flounder, Syacium micrurum, from Cape Verde was studied in November 2003 and April 2004, using frequency of occurrence and percentage by number indices, as well as multivariate analyses. Overall, S. micrurum exhibited a generalist feeding strategy with a relatively broad niche width. Analyses indicated Crustacea (...

The population differentiation of seven flatfish species, Citharus linguatula, Lepidorhombus boscii, Platichthys flesus, Microchirus azevia, Solea lascaris, Solea senegalensis and Solea solea, widely distributed along the eastern north Atlantic and occurring in sympatry along the Portuguese coast was studied using morphological and parasitological...

The genetic and morphologic variation of Solea lascaris (Risso, 1810) was studied along the Portuguese coast through protein electrophoresis and morphometric and meristic analysis. Genetic analysis was based on 10 loci, all except one polymorphic. The average heterosigosity (HT) was 0.116, a high value but within the range found for several flatfis...

The brown-shrimp beam trawl fishery carried out within the Tagus estuary produces discards due to the little commercial interest of most of the species caught. Between 1994 and 1996, monthly samples were collected in the two major fishing areas within the Tagus estuary, using a beam trawl, in order to estimate the amount of fish and crustaceans cau...

La grande alose (Alosa alosa) et l’alose feinte (Alosa fallax) sont des poissons migrateurs anadromes menacés non seulement au Portugal mais dans toute leur aire de distribution géographique. La surexploitation et la pêche illégale, la pollution, les obstacles physiques et les modifications du lit des rivières semblent être les principales raisons...

Only three cases of landlocked populations of allis shad (Alosa alosa L.) were reported until the present, being two of them in Portugal. In this paper, data on the feeding habits and condition of these two populations sampled between 1998 and 1999 are presented. Both populations are zooplanktivorous, with cladocerans (Family Daphniidae) and cyclo...

L’objectif général de ce guide est de fournir un manuel d’utilisation et d’interprétation des écailles pour l’estimation de l’âge chez les aloses de l’Atlantique-Est et de Méditerranée-Ouest (Grande Alose, Alose feinte atlantique et méditerranéenne). Après un présentation rapide des espèces, populations et fleuves analysés, les écailles d’aloses et...

The general objective of this guide is to provide a practical manual for interpreting scales and the estimation of age of Alosa from the East Atlantic and West-Mediterranean (Allis shad, Atlantic and mediterranean shad). Following a brief presentation of the species, populations and rivers studied, the scales, sampling methods and their preparation...