TABLE 4.
Biomass (Kg/species) caught in fishing trawls compared with the number of reads obtained through eDNA. The total number of reads does not include sites north La Rochelle
| Species | Number of reads | % | Biomass (kg) | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boops boops | 0 | 0.00 | 8.26 | 1.10 |
| Capros aper | 0 | 0.00 | 0.34 | 0.05 |
| Dicentrarchus labrax | 13,712 | 0.45 | 0.36 | 0.05 |
| Engraulis encrasicolus | 1,722,690 | 56.94 | 400.33 | 53.31 |
| Merluccius merluccius | 4,454 | 0.15 | 27.49 | 3.66 |
| Micromesistius poutassou | 81,649 | 2.70 | 12.44 | 1.66 |
| Mugil sp. | — | — | 0.90 | 0.12 |
| Myctophidae | — | — | 0.27 | 0.04 |
| Sardina pilchardus | 621,400 | 20.54 | 11.49 | 1.53 |
| Scomber colias | 4,464 | 0.15 | 2.57 | 0.34 |
| Scomber scombrus | 149,397 | 4.94 | 104.86 | 13.96 |
| Solea solea | 591 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.01 |
| Sprattus sprattus | 0 | 0.00 | 1.07 | 0.14 |
| Trachinus draco | 151 | 0.00 | 1.56 | 0.21 |
| Trachurus mediterraneus | 0 | 0.00 | 49.59 | 6.60 |
| Trachurus trachurus | 29 | 0.00 | 126.98 | 16.91 |
| Trisopterus luscus | 0 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.05 |
| Trisopterus minutus | 5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Zeus faber | 0 | 0.00 | 2.07 | 0.28 |