The methodology is centered on the importance of the technical characteristics of the Spanish fishing fleet characterised by communities.
Accordingly, our case study is composed of 318 units that were grouped according to the local community to which it belongs.
Consequently, Table 2 shows the number of ships employed in our study, their power and total length, for each different Spanish community.
This Table indicates that the Catalan Community fleet occupies the third place in number and importance in Spain.