[Prospective] Brazil lane snapper and yellowtail snapper– handline & trap

Last Update: July 2025

Species: lane snapper (Lutjanus synagris), yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus)

FIP Profile at FisheryProgress.org: PROSPECTIVE Brazil lane snapper and yellowtail snapper– handline & trap

Fishery location: Area 41 (Atlantic, Southwest), Brazil.

FIP coordination: CeDePesca. If you would like more information about the FIP or if you wish to support it, please contact Rochelle Becerra.

FIP Partners:

• Beaver Street
• Maris Pescados/Compescal
• CeDePesca (Technical support)

FIP Launch / Announced Date: November 2024

The lane snapper (Lutjanus synagris) and yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus) are among the main demersal fishing resources caught with handlines in Brazil. It has a wide geographic distribution, being found from North Carolina, USA, to the Southeast of Brazil and lives in various types of substrates, mainly around coral reefs and algae banks.

In Brazil, fisheries management is shared between the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture (MPA) and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, and it is known that there has not been a continuous fisheries statistics program since 2008. However, the Permanent Committee on Management and Sustainable Use of Demersal Resources in the North and Northeast, which aims to advise on the sustainable exploitation of demersal resources, resumed their meetings in 2022.