LPUE declines were larger and marginally significant for purse seiners (13%), while the LPUE of small-scale gear fisheries showed a significant increase of 29% (Table S3 Supplementary Material, t-value = −1.9, p-value = 0.07 and t-value =4.01, p-value<0.001, respectively) ( Table 2 , and Figs.
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Ecological and economic effects of COVID-19 in marine fisheries from the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea.
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Only the biomass of invertebrates showed a positive trend with time, in agreement with the observations.