Abstract

"The coastal small-scale fishery in the Colombian Caribbean is characterized by the joint exploitation of demersal and pelagic species, which are caught using a variety of fishing gears. The snapper Lutjanus synagris, is one of the commercially important demersal fish species which is distributed throughout the Caribbean coast. We studied the spatio-temporal changes in the catch per unit effort (CPUE) of snapper, using data coming from the logbooks of the small-scale longline fishery. These data were obtained from hauls carried out in the Magdalena Department (73