Octopus (Octopus vulgaris)

The octopus has a tender body with a well developed brain and eight tentacles. These tentaclres have two rows of suckers.
There are a lot of octopus fishing techniques, but the most useful in our costa is the one called “cajirones” (mud recipients), which consist in uniting several cajirones in a strong rope and use them to atract and catch the octopus.
This rosary of recipients is placed in the bottom of the sea (called ”type longline”) and let the octopus enter themselves. At the next day the recipients are taken off alongside with the octopus and carried to our facilities, in which we extraxct its vicerae, clasify them by weight and size, and put them into a container individually or in a 10 Kg. Progression aprox. The product is freezed and later, sent for sell.

Squid (Loligo vulgaris)

A molluse with an esbelt, long tube-size body, and a head smaller than other similar species. The fins make a rhombus from the back to the middle section of the body. Whan alive, it’s colour is trasnsparent pink, or brown with spots in its back. Lives from 10 to 150 meters on the bottom of the sea. There are many ways of fishing it. By dragging or using a hook, being the later the most used. This method consist on moving the fishing line up and down to atract the squid to the hook.

Giant Squid (Dosidicus Gigas)

The giant squid is an ocean species that migrates to coasts, searching for a place for food and repoduction. It can be found from the surface until 1,500 m. underwater.

Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)

The cuttlefish is a ten tentacle cephalopod. It has a flat body and it’s tentacles arr divided in pairs of 2 arround its mouth. Some of these are bigger than the resto and it used to catch it’s prays. It’s habitat is the sandy bottom with vegetación in shallow waters untill 150 meters. To fish this cephalod, you can use dragging or trammel nets.

“Almendrita” Cuttlefish (Sepia spp.)

White Cloyster (Spisula solida)

The white cloyster (Spisula solida) is a bivalved white (or yellowish) collored molluse. It’s centered lines can’t be seen and it’s size is normally smaller than another cloysters; its shell has a triangle-oval shape. In certain times, we found it mixed with Fine Cloysters. This species can be fished by dragging.

Norway Lobster (Nephrops norvegicus)

The Norway Lobster is a crustacean with an extended body, red colored in mostly all it extend. It’s head is large, with lateral thorns and web developed pincers. Lies in the soft bottom part of the seas, form 50 to 700 meters, depending on the temperature. It’s reproduction cycle is on july and february, and it’s eggs are dark blue colored. It can be fished by dragging, alongisde with another species.

Prawns (Parapeneus longirostris)

The White Prawns is the most popular crustacean for the spanish consumers, specially the White Prawn from the coasts of Algarve and Huelva. Is part of the family of Penaeidae and it is size is between 8 and 10 cm. It is habitat is the sandy bottom or swampy zones between 200 and 500 meters. It can be captured using dragging vessels.

Red Prawn (Aristeus antennatus)

Known as the Red Prawn or “alisted”, is pink colored with protunding antenaes. This species is well known in the fishing areas for it’s high selling value. It can be fished using dragging vessels in muddy sea floors from 300 fathoms.

Great Shrimp (Plesiopenaeus edwardsianus)

This specie has the body longer than the one of the red prawn and a more intense red color. They are also fished with boats of drag in the muddy sea floors from the 250 ms of depth.

Frigate Mackerel (Auxis thazard)

It’s appearance reminds the horse mackerel. It has dark spots, distributed over it’s blue colored back, emphasizing the contrast with the silver on the rest of it’s back. It don’t have scales, except on it’s lateral line. This is a predator species, forming huge groups in template waters on open sea. It can be aptured with wires, specially on July or October.