Research also includes other pelagic fish species such as the jurel and mackerel (Julio Valeiras).

The Spanish Institute of Oceanography is carrying out a research campaign in Spanish and Portuguese waters of the Gulf of Cadiz, the main objective of which will be the assessment by acoustic and cartographic methods of the nerve pelagic resources, those that live in the water column of the continental shelf, such as the boqueron, the sardine and various species of jurels and horses. The campaign called ECOCADIZ 2016-07, is on board the oceanographic ship Miguel Oliver, of the General Secretariat of Fisheries, has as the port-base of start and end the port of Cadiz and in it will participate scientific and technical personnel of the IEO of the oceanographic centers of Cadiz, Baleares, Vigo, A Coruña, Gijón and Santander, of the SGP and of the CIRCE association, as well as students in practices of the Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences of the University of Cadiz.

During ECOCADIZ 2016-07, research is under way in the waters of the continental shelf (between 20 and 200 m deep) between Cape Trafalgar (in Spanish waters of the Gulf of Cadiz) and Cape San Vicente (in the Portuguese Algarve), waters corresponding to the statistical subdivision 9.a- South of the ISES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea). The campaign is part of the research activities envisaged in the project of the IEO PELCOSAT-3 (Fisheries Biology and ecoethology of the species of PELagicos Costeros del Golfo de Cadiz (Spanish South-Atlantic Region, IXa South Branch of the ICES), whose main researcher and also responsible for the campaign is Fernando Ramos Modrego, of the Oceanographic Centre of Cadiz of the IEO. The campaigns in this series also have technical and human resources from the IEO DETAC-II project from the beginning.