Boletim do Instituto de Pesca
Brief Background
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca (BIP) was established in 1971 as the official vehicle for disseminating scientific information from the Instituto de Pesca (Fisheries Institute). Its printed version (ISSN: 0046-9939) was discontinued in 2011, with only the online version (ISSN: 1678-2305) continuing. In 2021, aiming to facilitate the immediate dissemination of articles, the BIP adopted a continuous publication model, with articles made available as soon as they are approved and compiled into a single annual volume. The journal's abbreviated title is Bol. Inst. Pesca should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic captions. |
Open Access
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca follows the open-access model, allowing virtual access to all scientific texts published by the journal without restrictions (including financial restrictions). The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca offers immediate open access to its content, adhering to the principles of free access and the democratization of scientific knowledge. To maximize the dissemination and use of published material, the BIP adopts the Creative Commons license with CC BY 4.0 attribution. Thus, the copyright belongs to the authors, granting free and immediate access to the work and allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full texts of the articles, or create links to them, crawl the articles for indexing, use them as data for software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that proper credit is given. Authors are allowed to deposit all versions of their work [Preprint (submitted version), Accepted Manuscript (version of the manuscript that received acceptance), Published Article (version of record)] in an institutional or thematic repository without embargo |
Open Science Compliance
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca follows the Gold Open Access model. When submitting the manuscript, the author must complete and submit the Open Science Compliance Form as supplementary material. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca (BIP) provides immediate, free access to its content, adhering to the principles of free and democratized open access to scientific knowledge, in accordance with the Gold Open Access model. To maximize the dissemination and use of published material, BIP adopts the Creative Commons license with CC BY 4.0 attribution. Thus, copyright remains with the authors, providing free and immediate access to the work and allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, including commercial purposes, provided due attribution is given. Authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their work (Preprint (Submitted Version), Accepted Manuscript (Accepted Version of the Manuscript), Published Article (Record Version)) in an institutional or thematic repository, without embargo. BIP is committed to open science initiatives and offers reviewers and corresponding authors the right to disclose their identities by using the Open Science Compliance Form, which must be submitted as a supplementary file with the manuscript. The journal also accepts articles previously published in preprint repositories such as SciELO Preprints and EmeRI. BIP encourages authors to share their data in trusted repositories such as Dryad, Figshare, Zenodo, Mendeley Data and OSF |
Ethics in Publication
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The publication involves the author or authors, the editors, the reviewers, and the Instituto de Pesca (Fisheries Institute), who have responsibilities that affect all process stages, from submission to publication. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca is committed to high standards of ethical behavior in management and editorial practices, with an emphasis on relationships with authors and, mainly, in the evaluation of their manuscripts, under procedures established by international institutions such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (Transparency & Best Practice), Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) (Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) (Code of Good Scientific Practices) e Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) Guidelines on Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication). The BIP employs the Similarity Check/iThenticate system to assess the content of all submitted manuscripts. The Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors and Editorial Board ensure the quality of the material they publish, prohibiting any form of plagiarism and/or fraudulent data to maintain the integrity of the academic record and ensure intellectual standards. They are always ready to publish corrections, clarifications and retractions when necessary, thus following the Guidelines for Good Practices in Scientific Publishing. The Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Editorial Board ensure the needs of readers and authors, the quality of the material they publish, the integrity of the scholarly record, and intellectual standards. They are always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies in implementing the Good Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics and intellectual and ethical standards. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca adheres to international guidelines for good practice, recommended principles for investigating cases of research misconduct, and texts suggested by the World Science Forum and the Councilof Scientific Editors when conducting investigations into international misconduct. |
Focus and Scope
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca publishes the results of basic and applied research that contributes to a better understanding of the aquatic environment and the development of technologies for producing and processing aquatic organisms, such as fish and shrimp. With an emphasis on interdisciplinary contributions, innovative methodological or technical developments, items with broad general applicability, and local or regional experiences, the Boletim do Instituto de Pesca aims to be a source of inspiration, seeking to expand knowledge and understanding. Its scope in the agricultural sciences includes the area of fisheries resources and fisheries engineering, with an emphasis on aquaculture, fishing, limnology and related specialties, fields in which it is considered the first scientific journal, presenting a historical overview of the development of research in fisheries and aquaculture in Brazil and abroad. Its scope also includes the areas of fish science and technology, specialties such as the development of fish-based products and the use of by-products from fish processing, quality control, nutritional value and food safety of fish, as well as technologies for sustainable fishing, with a focus on ghost fishing, innovations to reduce bycatch and stock assessment. Aquaculture encompasses topics relevant to the sustainability of aquatic organism production, including integrated cultivation, feeding and nutrition, health, genetics, legislation, and economics. |
Digital Preservation
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca adheres to the SciELO Program Digital Preservation Policy standards. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca utilizes the PKP PN system to establish a distributed archiving system among participating libraries, enabling them to create permanent journal archives for preservation and future access. |
Indexing Sources
Bibliographic Journal Information
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Websites and Social Media
Preprints
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca recommends that authors deposit manuscripts as preprints to accelerate the circulation of article data before peer review. A preprint is a manuscript ready for submission to a journal and deposited on reliable servers before or in parallel with submission to a journal. Preprints are optional for authors, and it is assumed that, when submitting the manuscript, the name of the preprint server and the respective DOI are provided in the submission system. Articles submitted as preprints share with journals the originality of publication. The BIP recommends preprint repositories, such as BioRXiv, AgriRxiv, EmeRI and SciELO Preprints. However, the content of the material sent for evaluation cannot have been previously published or simultaneously submitted to other journals. The use of preprints is the author's choice, and it is assumed that, when submitting the article to the journal, using the Open Science Compliance Form, the name of the preprint server and the preprint's DOI are provided. The review process will follow the normal flow established for the BIP. |
Peer Review Process
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca has been aligning with Open Science communication practices and adopting a simple anonymized evaluation. In this process, the authors' identities are made available to reviewers, who may choose to reveal their identities and interact with the authors. The name of the area editor responsible for processing the manuscripts is published in the article's final version. Articles will be selected based on originality, quality and scientific merit. Articles considered suitable will be sent to at least two independent expert reviewers. The Editorial Board will ensure that the reviewers of each article are from institutions other than those of the authors. The Editor is responsible for the final decision on the acceptance or rejection of the articles, which is final. The Editorial Committee evaluates manuscripts regarding their scope and compliance with submission standards, originality, relevance and technical quality; if they do not meet these requirements, they will be rejected or sent back to the authors for adjustment. Then, the Similarity Check/iThenticate system will check for similarities in content (plagiarism) with other texts available on the web. Suppose significant similarities are detected at the time of submission or later. In that case, the Boletim do Instituto de Pesca will follow the guidelines of the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors from COPE. The opinions expressed in the articles are the sole responsibility of their authors. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca reserves the right to make minor adjustments to maintain the uniformity of the publication, provided that they are communicated to and approved by the authors. At least two researchers with recognized experience in the subject will review each manuscript. They may recommend approval as presented, request minor or major revisions, or reject the manuscript. Reviewers must not have conflicts of interest and must be committed to fair judgment. Their conclusions must be objective, pointing out relevant articles that have not been cited. Reviewers must also treat articles confidentially. A conflict of interest is defined as a conflict of interest when an author (or the institution with which the author is affiliated), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that could influence their actions. However, not all relationships represent an actual conflict of interest; it depends on whether the individual believes the relationship affects their ability to make unbiased scientific judgments. Financial relationships, such as employment, consulting, stock ownership, and paid expert testimony, are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest can arise for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion. Manuscripts that require revision will be sent to the author, who must submit a new version and a letter to the editor, in which they must comment on each reviewer's recommendations. Additional and/or changed paragraphs should be highlighted in the text. If the author disagrees with the reviewer's suggestions, they must explain why. After verifying that the new version adheres to the recommendations, the editor must make the final decision or forward the manuscript for another round of evaluation if the changes have not been sufficiently addressed. The entire process is available to authors anytime through the journal's online management system. The deadline for returning the corrected version by the author(s) is 30 days for each round. If the correction deadline is not met, the process will be automatically canceled, and the manuscript will be archived. In cases where there are conflicting recommendations among the reviewers, it will be necessary to request a third review. |
Open Data
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca recommends that authors, whenever applicable, deposit and share the data, codes and/or methods used in the production of the manuscript, with the responsible author being responsible for informing, during the submission process, the chosen repository, enabling access to reviewers and editors, unless this is not possible for ethical, privacy or confidentiality reasons. To ensure complete transparency of the data obtained, the Boletim do Instituto de Pesca requires authors to declare that these are available upon request for data not made available in public repositories. Authors must state why these data are not publicly available in such cases. It should be noted that data sharing does not apply to the article because no dataset was generated or analyzed during the study. Research data includes, but is not limited to, raw data, processed data, spreadsheets, statistics, laboratory notebooks, field notebooks, questionnaires, photographs, methodologies, standards, and protocols. Authors may use their institution's data repository or choose from the repositories recommended at re3data.org or SciELO List of repositories for depositing research data. Other options are Dryad, Figshare, Zenodo, Mendeley Data, and OSF. |
Fees
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For accepted manuscripts, the corresponding author must contribute to the Article Processing Fee for editorial services supporting the publication process, such as editing, reviewing, indexing, and dissemination. The amount is US$50.00 per final page (PDF) for foreign authors and R$100.00 for authors affiliated with Brazilian institutions. |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
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To strengthen good practices, the Bulletin of the Fisheries Institute uses the Good Practices Guide for strengthening ethics in scientific publications. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca guides authors, editors, and reviewers on ethical and responsible behavior. Authors: By submitting manuscripts, authors undertake to respect scientific integrity practices, strictly observe the criteria for attribution of authorship and report the individual contributions of each author. They must also declare all potential conflicts of interest concerning the submitted article and provide information on previous publications, presentation of the work, academic affiliations, and funding sources. Authors must undertake to cite and provide correct references to all articles, data, and other documents mentioned in the article. The submitting author assumes, on behalf of all authors of the manuscript, responsibility for the integrity of the research and the manuscript's content, as well as for making corrections or retractions, if necessary. Whenever applicable, certificates from the ethics committees that approve the research must be presented at the time of submission. Editors: Editors undertake to adopt and ensure editorial neutrality and impartiality and to ensure that published manuscripts comply with internationally established ethical recommendations. They must verify that the research has been approved by ethics committees, requiring certificates if these have not been presented. When assigned to manage the manuscript evaluation process, editors must take measures to identify and prevent the publication of papers that present research misconduct. They also deal appropriately with formal allegations of scientific misconduct and continually improve the journal and its content, including the publication of corrections, retractions, clarifications, and apologies whenever necessary. Editors must declare potential conflicts of interest in evaluating manuscripts and act to prevent those involving authors and reviewers that may compromise the ethical standards of the publication. The editor's name, responsible for managing the evaluation process, will be published in the approved articles in PDF format. Evaluators: When appointed, only those who are able and available to prepare the review with the most extraordinary scientific rigor within the defined deadline and who do not have any conflicts of interest that could influence their evaluation or recommendation should accept the invitation to review. Reviewers who participate in the evaluation process evaluate the work under the best academic and scientific integrity practices and point out any instances of scientific misconduct when identified. They also undertake to maintain the confidentiality of the documents they receive and of the process during the evaluation. BIP employs a single-blind evaluation system whereby reviewers know the authors' identities and may interact directly with them. Published articles that contain seriously flawed data, such that their findings and conclusions cannot be trusted, may be retracted to correct the scientific record. After a discussion with the corresponding author, the author may request additions, corrections, and retractions or initiate them by the editor-in-chief. Readers who identify material errors in third-party work should contact the corresponding author of the respective paper directly. All additions, corrections, and retractions are subject to approval by the Editors-in-Chief. Minor corrections and additions, however, will not be published. The corresponding author must obtain approval from all co-authors before requesting/submitting additions, corrections, and retractions or provide evidence that such approval was requested. The originally published article will remain on the web, except in extraordinary circumstances. When a published article requires retraction, errata or addendum, the following will be used, respectively: Guide for the registration, marking and publication of retraction; Guide for the registration, marking and publication of Errata; and Guide for the registration, marking and publication of Addendum. Suppose plagiarism is detected in a published article after an internal investigation. In that case, a letter will be sent immediately to all authors, their affiliated institutions, and funding agencies, if applicable, and the article will subsequently be retracted. |
Policy on Conflict of Interest
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Conflicts of interest can be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial. Conflicts of interest can occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. When submitting a manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If there is, even potentially, a conflict of interest, the author(s) must disclose it in a signed document attached to the submission platform. For more information, see Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships, Activities, and Conflicts of Interest Potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancy, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors may disclose any conflicts or declare their absence, which will be published if the article is accepted. Detailed disclosures will be included in the journal records. For the Boletim do Instituto de Pesca, the following relationships between editors and authors are considered conflicts and should be avoided: current colleagues, recent colleagues, recent co-authors, and masters and doctoral students for whom the editor served as committee chair. After the assignment of articles, individual editors must inform the editor-in-chief of any conflicts not included here. If none of the editors pass all the conflict tests, the co-editors with the fewest conflicts will be assigned to the manuscript. Additionally, the least conflicting co-editors are assigned to all articles submitted for review by the handling editors. Submissions to the journal are also assigned to reviewers to minimize conflicts of interest. After the articles are assigned, reviewers are asked to inform the editor of any potential conflicts. |
Adoption of Similarity Software
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca uses the Similarity Check/iThenticate system to evaluate the content of all submitted manuscripts. Articles that show significant percentages of similarity with other texts on the web will be automatically rejected. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca aims to publish high-quality original research. Submission of a manuscript to this journal indicates that the study has not been published or submitted to another scientific publication. Suppose the author(s) is/are using any part of a published article (in English or another language). In that case, they must give due reference or, when necessary, obtain permission from the previous publisher or copyright holder (whichever is more appropriate). The opinions expressed in the articles are the sole responsibility of their authors. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca reserves the right to make minor adjustments to maintain the uniformity of the publication. |
Adoption of Software Using Artificial Intelligence Resources
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Hiding the use of AI tools is an ethical failure that violates the transparency of scientific publishing. Therefore, the Boletim do Instituto de Pesca establishes the following recommendations for the actors involved in the process: Authors Authorship entails responsibilities and tasks that can only be assigned to and performed by human beings. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca tolerates the use of AI by authors to improve the clarity and language of the work. The application of technology must be done with human supervision and control, and authors must carefully review and edit the results. Authors must disclose the use of AI and AI-assisted technologies in a statement that will be included in the published article. Authors must not list AI and AI-assisted technologies as authors or co-authors nor cite them in the text. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca does not permit using generative AI or AI-assisted tools to create or alter images in submitted manuscripts unless AI or AI-assisted tools are part of the research design or research methods. In this case, the use should be described in the Methods section. Editors Editors are called upon to address the effects of AI use and content on publication when employed/used to perform or generate analytical work or report results. Editors must be prepared and supported to conduct scientific scrutiny and ensure the quality and integrity of published scientific papers. In particular, editors are responsible for avoiding misinformation that could lead to adverse consequences and potential harm to individuals. At the same time, editors must adhere to established ethical and editorial standards and best practices, including documenting any assistance from AI tools or resources during the reception, review, and editing processes. When the manuscript received is not a preprint, the editor should not submit the manuscript to services, which could cause the identities and content to leak. Upon detecting any ethical flaws in the manuscript, the editor should follow the editorial office's ethical standards of good practices. Evaluators When the manuscript received is not a preprint, the reviewer should not submit the manuscript to services that may cause the leaking of identities and content. Like editors, reviewers are called upon to address the effects of AI use and content on the publication when employed/used to perform or generate analytical work or to report the results (which are expected to be indicated by the author in the Abstract and Methods). In particular, reviewers are called upon to avoid misinformation that may lead to adverse consequences and potential harm to people. AI applications and content should follow ethical standards and good practices and be documented in the reviews. |
Gender and Sex Issues
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The editorial team of the Boletim do Instituto de Pesca, along with the authors who publish in the journal, follows the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines for reporting information on sex and gender in study design, data analysis, and the results and interpretation of findings. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca is committed to the principles of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) in its practices, aiming to expand knowledge and improve the human condition. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca aims to address systemic inequalities and biases, promote equitable opportunities for authors and foster an inclusive environment for the development of all stakeholders involved in publishing. Thus, it contributes to the advancement of these principles within the scientific community in the field of fisheries science. Section editors are guided and motivated to:
The Editors-in-Chief, mindful of increasing diversity and recognizing the barriers faced in publication by authors, editors, and reviewers belonging to populations historically excluded based on markers such as race, geographic origin, gender, class, sexuality, and disability, among others, always seek to:
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Ethics Committee
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The authors must attach a statement of approval from the institution's Ethics Committee, responsible for approving the research. For studies involving the manipulation of vertebrates, a certificate confirming approval by the Animal Use Ethics Committee of the institution where the study originated must be submitted. Regarding research involving human subjects, a certificate confirming project approval by the Research Ethics Committee must be provided, even in the case of socioeconomic or ethnoecological studies. Authors should include in the manuscript a statement that informed consent has been obtained for experiments involving human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be respected. When reporting experiments with animals, Brazilians authors must present the process number approved by the institutional Comitê de Ética para o Uso de Animais (CEUA), following Federal Law No. 11,794/2008 (Arouca Law), which regulates item VII of § 1 of article 225 of the Brazilian Federal Constitution, which establishes procedures for the scientific use of animals. Articles coming from abroad must follow the international standards of the Council for International Organization of Medical Sciences (CIOMS). When reporting experiments on human subjects, Brazilians authors should indicate whether the procedures were approved by the institutional Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa (CEP), respecting Resolution No. 466/2012 of the National Health Council (Conselho Nacional de Saúde-CNS). Foreign authors must comply with the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki, revised in 2013. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement that the research was conducted with each participant's informed and appropriate consent. For publication of any details or photographs that may identify an individual, written consent is required from that individual or their legal guardian or executor, if applicable. Approval by the CEP is not necessary for research involving interviews, following CNS Resolution No. 510. Suppose there is any doubt that the research was conducted under current legislation. In that case, the authors must explain their approach and demonstrate that the institutional Ethics Committee expressly approved the study's doubtful aspects. All stages of protocol processing in the CEP/CONEP System occur exclusively through the Plataforma Brasil, which provides specific regulations, including information on ICF/AA |
Copyright
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Thus, the copyright belongs to the authors. The license provides free and immediate access to the work. It allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full texts of the articles or create links to them, track the articles for indexing, use them as data for software or use them for any other legal purpose, including commercial purposes, as long as due credit is given. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
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All the content of Boletim do Instituto de Pesca and its published articles, except where otherwise specified, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY. Authors of articles published by the Boletim do Instituto de Pesca retain copyright over their work. They license it under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction as long as the original work is properly cited. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their social media, as long as the complete citation to the journal's website version is included. |
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Types of Documents Accepted
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The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca evaluates manuscripts in the following categories: Original Articles, Review Articles or scientific notes. Manuscripts submitted to a preprint server are also accepted for assessment and must include the DOI, allowing for correlation at publication. The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca only accepts articles written in English. |
Assignment of the DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
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All articles receive a DOI number upon publication. |
Manuscript Preparation
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The manuscript must be typed in the Microsoft Word text editor (doc or docx), using Times New Roman 12 font, double spacing, and line numbering and pagination. Abbreviations and acronyms must be preceded by their meaning in full when they first occur. In the captions of tables and figures, abbreviations and acronyms must be accompanied by their meaning and should not be used in the title. |
Article Submission Format
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Manuscripts must follow the following structure: TITLE: It should be clear and concise (it should not be longer than two lines or 20 words) and written in capital letters. It is recommended that the scientific names of species or references to their descriptors are not included unless it is essential (in the case of little-known species). AUTHOR(S) NAME(S): The authors must be presented in full, in direct order (first name and last name) and identified by Arabic numerals separated by commas, when necessary. The author(s) affiliation (with up to three organizational instances), email, and ORCID registration must be placed on the first page immediately after the authors' names. The authors' affiliation data and geographic location must be presented in the institution's native language. The corresponding author must be highlighted. ABSTRACT: The Abstract should contain the objectives, methodology, results obtained, and conclusions in a maximum of 200 words. It should be written so the reader will be interested in reading the work in full. KEYWORDS: At least three and at most six, written with the initial letter capitalized and separated by semicolons. They should not repeat words that appear in the title; they should identify the subject matter, allowing the article to be found in the electronic search system, and should preferably appear in the DeCS/MeSH – Health Science Descriptors. INTRODUCTION: It should occupy a maximum of two pages and present the scientific problem to be solved, its importance (justification for conducting the work), and the evolution/current situation of the researched subject. The last paragraph should express the objective and be consistent with what is stated in the abstract. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This section should briefly describe all the methodologies used, preferably organized in the order of application so that the experiment can be reproduced. This item may vary according to the thematic nature of the document. Still, in general, it should contain the description of the local sampling procedure, frequency, period, instrument and methods, other relevant variables or the design of the experiment, the description of the treatments and variables, the number of repetitions and the characteristics of the experimental unit and information on statistical procedures and data transformations. Avoid superfluous details, extensive descriptions of commonly used techniques, and the use of unusual abbreviations. RESULTS: They should be presented separately from the Discussion. They may be given in text or in the form of tables and/or figures. Data presented in tables or figures should not be systematically repeated in the text. MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS, EXPRESSIONS AND EQUATIONS: They can be inserted in the text if they do not contain special characters; otherwise, they must be presented separately on the line. Example: weight gain = final weight - initial weight. MEASUREMENT UNITS: They must be presented in accordance with the International System of Units. Example: 10 m2; 100 fish*m-2; 20 t* ha-1. DISCUSSION: Avoid repeating values already presented in the results and citing tables and figures. The discussion should focus on the significance of the work's results rather than merely presenting a comparison of the data obtained with those available in the literature. It should highlight and demonstrate the main ideas and contributions produced by the work and comment on whether further research is needed or if any limitations are encountered. The Discussion should contain hypotheses and/or objective comments on the results, discussed in light of observations in the specialized literature. CONCLUSION: It must be clear and concise and respond to the objective(s) of the study. Based on the results obtained, it must be able to propose a solution (or a path to a solution) to the problem demand. TABLES: They should be presented throughout the text, numbered with Arabic numerals and headed by a self-explanatory title. It is recommended that data presented in tables not be repeated in graphs unless necessary. Tables should be no wider than 16 cm in width. Tables should be given in portrait format and not exceed one page. Abbreviations should also be avoided, except for units of measurement. If necessary, however, their meaning should be indicated in a caption below the table. DIGITAL ASSETS: Every visual element (graphs, drawings, maps, or photos) is called a figure and must be presented throughout the text, be a maximum of 16 cm wide and 21 cm high, be numbered with Arabic numerals, and have a self-explanatory title below. Words in graphs and maps must be in a legible font. Do not insert graphs, maps, or photos in tables. IN-TEXT CITATIONS: The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca adopts the APA style, with the author/date system, that is, the author's surname and the year the work was published. Examples:
REFERENCES: References should be ordered alphabetically by the first author's surname, according to the APA style. After the authors' names, insert the year of publication in parentheses followed by a period, the article title followed by a period, the journal title in italics followed by a comma (should not be abbreviated), the volume in italics, the edition in parentheses followed by a comma, the page range followed by a period, and the DOI without a period. Dissertations, theses, papers submitted for a bachelor's degree (Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso-TCC), books and book chapters may only be included when absolutely necessary. The DOI of each article is mandatory for each reference listed and must be active. When this is impossible, indicate the URL where the article is available.
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b. Documents with DOI (the DOI must be presented as registered in the consulted article):
c. Dissertations, theses (should be included only when essential and if available online). The date of access to the file should be entered:
d. BOOKS (should only be included when ABSOLUTELY necessary):
e. Book chapters (should only be included when ABSOLUTELY necessary):
f. Laws, decrees, normative instructions and ordinances:
g. Electronic references (journals published exclusively online; documents consulted online) CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Authors must indicate any conflicts of interest. DECLARATION OF USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS: Authors must mention the use of any AI tool in the preparation of the manuscript. AVAILABILITY OF RESEARCH DATA: One of the following options must be provided:
AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTION: The Boletim do Instituto de Pesca endorses the CRediT taxonomy for contributor roles. To assume responsibility for the content of the research, all authors must have contributed significantly to at least one of the following roles: Conceptualization; Investigation; Methodology; Formal Analysis; Data Curation; Project Administration; Funding Acquisition; Resources; Writing; Validation and Supervision; Final Approval. FINANCING STATEMENT: Financial support from funding institutions for the manuscript's research and/or preparation must be disclosed, if any. The name of the funding agency must be written in full, followed by the grant number. Suppose a specific project grant did not fund the research. The following information must be included in that case: "This research did not receive a specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors." ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: They should include the collaboration of people, groups or institutions that deserve recognition but do not have their inclusion as authors justified. SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS: They should only be included when essential to understanding the article. The editors-in-chief will make the final decision on whether to include them in the publication. SUBMITTING THE MANUSCRIPT
Registration in the system (via the link https://institutodepesca.org/index.php/bip/about/submissions) is mandatory. Submissions must be made using a login and password for later access and to monitor the ongoing editorial process. Submission Letter Items
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