“…Among the various methods used to describe temporal fishery dynamics, ARIMA modelling has proven to be an important tool for revealing hidden trends and seasonal patterns in time series with high inter-annual variability, such as artisanal landings and catch per unit effort (CPUE) series (e.g., Farley and Murphy, 1997;Stergiou et al, 1997;Park, 1998;Lloret et al, 2000;BecerraMuñoz et al, 2003;Koutroumanidis et al, 2006;Czerwinski et al, 2007, González Herraiz et al, 2009. ARIMA models were basically intended to identify and compare seasonal signals and trends in the three time series.…”