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SUMMARY

SUMMARY

IDENTIFICATION

SCIENTIFIC NAME(s)

Octopus vulgaris

SPECIES NAME(s)

Common octopus

There are a few studies focusing on the population structure of common octopus in the Mediterranean Sea (Casu et al. 2002)(Maltagliati et al. 2002)(De Luca et al. 2014)(Cabranes et al. 2008) indicate the existence of fine spatial substructure, in function of geographical distance (>by  200 km), in the Iberian Peninsula. Populations of common octopus in southern Spain and Portugal are considered to be genetically related but northern Spain or the Canary Islands are differentiated from the others. Therefore a biological stock is considered within the Southern Iberian Peninsula (ICES area 9a-South, Gulf of Cádiz, which includes the South of Portugal and Spain) where an assessment unit is as well recognized (ICES 2018).  


ANALYSIS

Strengths
  • The assessment unit considered in the Cephalopods Working Group Report by ICES overlaps with the existing biological stock.

SCORES

Management Quality:

Management Strategy:

< 6

Managers Compliance:

< 6

Fishers Compliance:

DATA DEFICIENT