01909nas a2200229   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653002200043653002400065653000800089653002300097653001600120653002100136100001700157700001700174245005500191856015000246300001000396490000600406520124700412022002001659                                       d10afishing community10aintangible heritage10aMap10aMaritime territory10aMental maps10aPóvoa de Varzim1 aJ. Fernandes1 aM. Labastida00aMapping the maritime backyards of Póvoa de varzim  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85101770171&doi=10.7480%2fspool.2020.2.5037&partnerID=40&md5=460f1549c90d1b35bb1bdab474695c36  a77-940 v73 aIn order to improve their professional activity, fishermen have developed special methods and procedures for organising the space of their maritime territory. This article presents some of these practices, based on the specific case of the fishing community of Póvoa de Varzim, a town on the north coast of Portugal. Over the years, each fishing family has developed mental maps of the “seas”, creating original names to identify certain places and their different characteristics, while simultaneously producing a remarkable intangible heritage. Together with the productive transformations that were characteristic of industrialisation, traditional fishing methods have also gradually changed, incorporating the use of electronic navigation devices and other mechanisms for the detection of marine resources. In this way, the sea has begun to be mapped digitally through a system of “maritime backyards” that divide the space according to the fishing gear used. The aim of this work is to map and compare the maritime space produced by traditional fishing methods and by the contemporary system of “maritime backyards”, giving visibility to practices and territories that are normally absent from the representations of places.  a22150897 (ISSN)