Fisheries and reproductive biology of Octopus vulgaris (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in the Gulf of Alicante (Northwestern Mediterranean)

• Published in: Mediterranean Marine Science
• Main Authors: González, M., Barcala-Bellod, Elena, Pérez-Gil, José Luis, Carrasco-Henarejos, María Nazaret, García-Martínez, María del Carmen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Pesquerías; Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia; Fulton; DML
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/8147; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/326342; https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.38

The common octopus Octopus vulgarisCuvier, 1797 is the most fished cephalopod species along the Spanish coasts. Its catches are highly fluctuating due to the short life cycle of the species and to the annual variability of the recruitment pattern, strongly dependent on the environmental conditions a...