During the past two decades, Pedro Lino worked in biology, gear selectivity, stock assessment and management of commercial fisheries, especially with highly migratory species, being co-ordinator of National Plan for Biological Sampling (PNAB) for the South region of Portugal. Equally, Pedro Lino collaborates with the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), reporting catch data of the highly migratory species of the Portuguese fleet, tagging fish and collecting biological samples, currently collaborating in the aging and growth working group of the Small Tunas Year Research Program (SMTYP) of ICCAT.