La pêche récréative dans la région de Mostaganem

Abstract

At the end of this work, essentially devoted to the study of recreational fishing and its statistics in western Algeria along the coast of Mostaganem. The work was divided into three main parts: A census of official statistics on the fishing activity in the region of Mostaganem and its evolution through time, in order to characterize the major changes in this sector and to focus on recreational fishing and its impact on the marine ecosystem. A survey was carried out among recreational fishermen, in order to characterize the recreational fishing community, the characteristics of the fleet and the fishing activity carried out on the marine ecosystem. The survey is carried out by means of a questionnaire with three main parts: Social profile of the fisherman, Characteristics of the fleet; Fishing activity and its characteristics. The survey reached recreational fishermen working at the level of the port of Salamandre and Sidi Lakhdar as well as on the stranding sites: Stidia, Oureah and Bahara beach. A field monitoring was carried out in the eastern part of the coast of Mostaganem at the level of the Aachacha stranding site, as well as in the port of Salamandre (western part), where we monitored the landings of some recreational fishermen during the period from May to July. This fishing activity is practiced mainly by boats of 4.8 m using a multitude of fishing gears and which target different species belonging to the zoological groups: Osteichthyes, Chondrichthyes and Mollusks, of which we counted a total of 18 species caught grouped into 10 families.