“…A number of recent studies have described the region's industrial fishing fleet (Silva et al, 2014;Aragão et al, 2015), its productivity, fishery statistics, and marketing network (Pinheiro, Frédou, 2004;Isaac et al, 2008;Frédou et al, 2009;Pinheiro et al, 2013). Other studies, such as those of Isaac, Braga (1999), Pinheiro, Frédou (2004), Paiva et al (2009), and Aragão et al (2015) have attempted to determine the volume of the bycatch harvested by industrial fisheries off the North coast of Brazil, although the data available on the composition of the bycatch is limited to the commercially-valuable species (Paiva et al, 2009;Aragão et al, 2015;Maia et al, 2016). This situation is a major cause for concern given the considerable lacuna in the understanding of the diversity of the teleost fish fauna of the Brazilian North coast (Marceniuk et al, 2013(Marceniuk et al, , 2017.…”