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Gulf of California databases of small pelagic fish
Citation
Buenfil Avila Aura, Villalobos Héctor, Nevárez-Martínez Manuel O., Morales-Bojórquez Enrique, Arizmendi-Rodríguez Dana Isela (2025). Gulf of California databases of small pelagic fish. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/105787 https://doi.org/10.17882/105787
Contact: Buenfil Avila, Aura

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Description

The Gulf of California databases of small pelagic fish are made up of a database of the program observed on-board jointly developed by INAPESCA and the NGO Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI), as an instrument for monitoring the fishing activities of the sardine fleet, which proven to be relevant for certifying the Gulf of California sardine fishery as sustainable under the Marine Stewardship Council standard. This information corresponds to the Sonora sardine fleet, from January 2013 to June 2014, with a record of 1,175 hauls with positive catches. These include information about Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax); thread herring (Opisthonema libertate); northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax); and Pacific anchoveta (Cetengraulis mysticetus).

Important Note: This submission has been initially submitted to SEA scieNtific Open data Edition (SEANOE) publication service and received the recorded DOI. The metadata elements have been further processed (refined) in EMODnet Ingestion Service in order to conform with the Data Submission Service specifications.


Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish > Pelagic fish, Fisheries
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Occurrence · Regional · Gulf of California · Engraulis mordax Girard, 1854 · Opisthonema libertate (Günther, 1867) · Sardinops sagax (Jenyns, 1842)

Geographical coverage
Gulf of California [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
2013 - 2014

Taxonomic coverage
Engraulis mordax Girard, 1854 [WoRMS]
Opisthonema libertate (Günther, 1867) [WoRMS]
Sardinops sagax (Jenyns, 1842) [WoRMS]

Contributors
National Polytechnic Institute (IPN)data creator
Buenfil Avila, Aura
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
Büring, Tobias

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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2026-02-26
Metadatarecord created: 2026-03-11
Information last updated: 2026-05-12
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