Spatial analysis of a coastal area for conservation and fishery of mangrove edible crab (Ucides cordatus)

ABSTRACT Santos, L. C. M.; Rollo, M.M.; Costa, T.M.; Pinheiro. M.A.A.; Dahdouh-Guebas, F. and Bitencourt, M.D., 2016. Spatial analysis of a coastal area for conservation and fishery of mangrove edible crab (Ucides cordatus). In: Vila-Concejo, A.; Bruce, E.; Kennedy, D.M., and McCarroll, R.J. (eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Coastal Symposium (Sydney, Australia). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue, No. 75, pp. 685–689. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Mangroves are productive ecosystems of tropical coastal landscapes, constituting habitat for many commercial fisheries, as the crab Ucides cordatus. In Brazil this crab holds a major socio-economic importance for artisanal fishery, but with obvious decline on their productivity. In this study we determined and mapped the more suitable mangrove areas for the conservation and fishery of this crab in the Sao Francisco River Estuary (Northeastern Brazil). We applied a Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) in a GIS environment. Ten criteria ...