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The attractive price for spiny lobster (Panulirus spp.) puerulus has recently encouraged many fishers to engage in its collection as an alternative livelihood at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. This booming fishery prompted the investigation of the settlement traps, luring/shading materials, trap installation and harvesting methods, and problems encountered in the spiny lobster puerulus fishery in Palawan, Philippines. Reviewed videos posted on social media, personal observation, and data gathered from key informants (KIs) revealed the use of various modified and newly developed settlement traps. The most common were the concrete cylindrical and disc-shaped traps used by 63.33% of the KIs. Some KIs (40%) provided the settlement traps with luring/shading materials like Sargassum thalli. Settlement traps were mostly installed using the stake-hanging method. The harvesting season starts in March and ends in August where the daily collection coincides with the moon phase. Fishers collected settled puerulus through diving or pulling the traps out of the water. However, some issues like unstable prices and the absence of fishing regulations threaten the sustainability of pueruli collection. Hence, the establishment of collection zones, issuance of fishing permits, price regulation, and long-term monitoring to maintain this promising fishery industry is suggested in crafting ordinances. Efficiencies of traps may also be investigated as an additional basis for policy recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mid-Cretaceous (upper Albian) strata of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin in northern Spain are renowned for their highly diverse crustacean assemblages from reef settings. From the Koskobilo quarry, two small, enrolled specimens of a sphaeromatid isopod, Cymodoce (?) scopula sp. nov., and the posterior part of a carapace of a palinurid achelatan, Palaeopalinurus serratus sp. nov., are recorded. In view of the remarkably complete preservation of the isopod specimens, this example ranks amongst those extinct isopods that can be tentatively placed within an extant genus. Cymodoce (?) scopula sp. nov. would constitute the stratigraphically oldest member of this genus to date, extending its range by 65 myr. With regard to the taxonomy of extinct isopods, Sphaeroma gasparellai from the Eocene of Italy is here transferred to Cymodoce , Cymodoce sarmatica is regarded as incertae sedis within Isopoda, and Triassphaeroma magnificum from the Upper Triassic of Italy is placed in the family Cirolanidae. Finally, Reboursia ranvillensis from the alleged Middle Jurassic (upper Bathonian, but possibly Cenozoic) of northwest France best fits in the family Sphaeromatidae. The new palinurid is the youngest representative of Palaeopalinurus thus far. The new palinurid species affirms that Koskobilo and the Albeniz unit are the richest locality and stratigraphic unit for Cretaceous decapods to date. Koskobilo is also one of the most diverse Cretaceous localities for crustaceans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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