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vessels. The artisan fleet captures a wider range of fish species than the industrial fleet and its
catch is unloaded mainly in the Ver-O-Peso market in Belém-PA, although there are fish
landings along the State of Pará coast where the fish cargo is transferred to trucks that trade in
more distant areas.
M
ATERIALS AND
M
ETHODS
Study Area and Samplings
The artisan fishing fleet used drift gillnet between 5º N and 1º S and between 47º to 51º
W (Figure 1), to collect fish during two time periods, (October 1996 - February 1997 and
January 1999 - November 2001).
Figure 1. Artisan fishing fleet Strata, (stratum one and stratum 2) and drift gillnet sampling sites in the
Amazonian estuary.
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