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José Luis Cort Pablo Abaunza

The Bluefin Tuna Fishery in the Bay of Biscay Its Relationship with the Crisis of Catches of Large Specimens in the East Atlantic Fisheries from the 1960s

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The Bluefin Tuna Fishery in the Bay of Biscay Its Relationship with the Crisis of Catches of Large Specimens in the East Atlantic Fisheries from the 1960s

José Luis Cort Centro Oceanográfico de Santander Spanish Institute of Oceanography Santander, Cantabria, Spain

Pablo Abaunza Spanish Institute of Oceanography Madrid, Spain

ISSN 2192-2179 ISSN 2192-2187 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Biology ISBN 978-3-030-11544-9 ISBN 978-3-030-11545-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11545-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018967411 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. This book is an open access publication. Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Atlantic bluefin tuna (Courtesy of Grup Balfegó)

Acknowledgements

Thanks are extended to Bernardo Pérez and Pablo Barquín (IEO, Santander) for their help in preparing the graphics and manuscripsts of the present study; to Juan J. Navarro (Grup Balfegó) for permission to use the images provided; to Cesar González-Pola (IEO) for the design of the Fig. 2.2 showing the currents in the Bay of Biscay; to the Institute of Marine Reseach in Norway (IMR) for providing the photograph of Fig. 5.11; to Øyvind and Magnus Tangen for providing figures presented at the Santander Symposium; to Taylor and Francis Group for allowing the publication of several figures and tables from two publications; to Victor Díaz del Río, oceanographer geologist of the IEO, for the description of the Strait of Gibraltar in the times of Neanderthal man; to Francisco Abascal (IEO) for facilitating the geolocation of Fig. 7.3; to Carlos Palma, ICCAT biostatistician, always willing to clarify and facilitate information, and for facilitating the Figs. 2.4 and 8.3; and to Antonio Di Natale (Genoa Aquarium), for the revision of the manuscript.