Valorisation of marine products from Macaronesia: MACAROFOODGrey triggerfish and wahoo

Event Abstract Back to Event Valorisation of marine products from Macaronesia: MACAROFOOD Grey triggerfish and wahoo Mafalda Freitas1, 2*, Luisa Costa1, João Delgado2, 3, 4, Graça Faria3, Ricardo Sousa2, 3, Sandra Correia5, Evandro Lopes6, Gonzalo Tejera7, Rocío Arenas7, Raül Triay-Portella7*, José G. Pajuelo7, José M. Lorenzo7 and José A. González7 1 Center for Marine and Environmental Sciences (MARE), Portugal 2 Observatório Oceânico da Madeira (OOM), Portugal 3 Other, Portugal 4 Interdisciplinary Center for Marine and Environmental Research, Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal 5 National Fisheries Development Institute, Cabo Verde 6 University of Cape Verde, Cabo Verde 7 University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain The main objectives of the MACAROFOOD project (Valorisation of marine products from Macaronesia: tourism, gastronomy and professional training) are to promote reliable fishery resources management, promoting good practices and sustainable exploitation, to develop synergies between social/marine science and gastronomy, and to establish a dynamic flow of information/knowledge to propel excellence in tourism and thus enrich local marine products. One of the activities of the project is the determination of oceanographic, biological and genetic parameters of target and by-catch species with commercial importance; and to ensure the consolidation of Macaronesian reference collections and biobanks. To determine the biological parameters of traditional or alternative fish resources (grey triggerfish and wahoo) which are common in Macaronesia, i.e. NE Atlantic archipelagos of Madeira, Canaries and Cabo Verde, between 2017 and 2019 grey triggerfish Balistes capriscus (n=700 individuals) (Balistidae) and wahoo Acanthocybium solandri (n=350) (Scombridae) were obtained from local fish markets, and then sampled at laboratory. Standard biometric measurements were taken. Gonads were fixed for further histological analyses and muscle samples stored for genetic analyses. Despite the high quality and taste of their flesh, these species does not represent an important fisheries resource in Madeira Island, being captured mostly by recreational fishery (both species) and spear game fishing (A. solandri). In the Canary Islands, both species are chiefly caught by the local artisanal fleet. In the Cabo Verde Islands, the wahoo is one of the most traditional target species and very appreciate in the national cuisine, while grey triggerfish is an emergent fish product mainly at the northern-occidental islands. Acknowledgements This research was co-funded by the EU ERDF in the framework of the Programme INTERREG V-A (Madeira, Açores, Canarias) 2014-2020, project MACAROFOOD (MAC/2.3d/015). RS was financially supported by Project M1420-01-0145-FEDER-000001- Observatório Oceânico da Madeira-OOM. R.T-P was supported by a contract as research staff in training of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Keywords: marine products, Macaronesia islands, Macarofood project, Grey Triggerfish, Wahoo, Madeira, Canaries and Cabo Verde Islands Conference: XX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies (SIEBM XX) , Braga, Portugal, 9 Sep - 12 Sep, 2019. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Fisheries, Aquaculture and Biotechnology Citation: Freitas M, Costa L, Delgado J, Faria G, Sousa R, Correia S, Lopes E, Tejera G, Arenas R, Triay-Portella R, Pajuelo JG, Lorenzo JM and González JA (2019). Valorisation of marine products from Macaronesia: MACAROFOOD Grey triggerfish and wahoo. Front. Mar. Sci. Conference Abstract: XX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies (SIEBM XX) . doi: 10.3389/conf.fmars.2019.08.00079 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. 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