Profile updated on 2 August 2024

SUMMARY

SUMMARY

IDENTIFICATION

SCIENTIFIC NAME(s)

Sardinella maderensis

SPECIES NAME(s)

Madeiran Sardinella

COMMON NAMES

flat sardinella, shortbody sardine, grande allache, machuela, tirsi

Image: Whitehead 1985 via FAO

RELATED LINKS:

• See this species on FishBase

• Management Entities:

  Mauritania Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy (MFME)

• Assessment Entities:

  Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) ,  Institut Mauritanien de Recherches Oceanographiques et des Peches (IMROP) ,  Morocco National Institute for Fisheries Research (INRH)