Fig 1.
Location of the Canary Islands.
Fig 2.
Fishers’ guilds surveyed throughout the archipelago.
Fig 3.
Percentages of the most common fish species caught in the artisanal fishery where houndsharks and dogfish shark is a co-occurring species.
Fig 4.
Species spatial distribution heatmap in the archipelago related to fishers’ quiestionnaires: A) Mustelus mustelus, B) Galeorhinus galeus; C) Squalus megalops.
Fig 5.
Relative abundance of houndsharks and dogfish in the Canary Islands.
Fig 6.
Catches (kg) of the three most abundant species among Canarian fishers for each Canary Islands.
Data referring to 2022.
Fig 7.
Total length range for each island and Chi-square result for the species archipelago: A) Mustelus mustelus, B) Galeorhinus galeus, C) Squalus megalops (LNZ – Lanzarote, FTV – Fuerteventura, GC – Gran Canaria, TF – Tenerife, GOM – La Gomera, PAL – La Palma).
Table 1.
Permits (✔) and prohibitions (×) for the fishing gear used in this study on each island of the archipelago.
Fig 8.
Frequency accumulation of answers about the efficiency of each fishing gear being 1: Low efficiency, 2: Medium efficiency and 3: High efficiency.