Application of a General Pattern of Colonization of a “Verde-PROARR”-Artificial Reef in the Ría de Ares-Betanzos (Spain)

The Galician estuaries (rias) do not manage to increase the fishing yield, in spite of the fact that they are ecosystems of great biological production. Therefore, one of the measures to be taken is the implantation of artificial reefs (AR). They attract fish from neighboring areas and/or increase the area colonized by epifaunal species. An important task is to plan the layout of the different modules that will make up a reef to obtain the greatest biological and economic profitability. Therefore, it is necessary to predict equilibrium states between benthic and nektonic communities in different geographical areas.