Ecotrophic Effects of Fishing across the Mediterranean Sea

The status of the Mediterranean Sea fisheries was evaluated across the seven subdivisions of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), using ecotrophic and catch-based indicators for the period 1970–2017. All indicators confirmed that the fishery resources across the Mediterranean Sea are no longer sustainably exploited and that the structure and function of marine ecosystems has been altered as a result of overexploitation. Although declining catches were a common feature across the Mediterranean Sea, the pattern of exploitation and the state of stocks differed among the subdivisions, with the Levantine Sea and Sardinia having a better status. Although they only include the exploited biological resources of marine ecosystems, catch and ecotrophic indicators can provide insight on ecosystem status and fishing pressure. In the case of southern Mediterranean countries, catch and trophic levels are the only information available, which is extremely valuable in data-poor ecosystems.

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Perfuorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), Brominated Dioxins (PBDDs) and Furans (PBDFs) in Wild and Farmed Organisms at Different Trophic Levels in the Mediterranean Sea

Toxics ◽

10.3390/toxics6030050 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 50 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Elena Fattore ◽

Renzo Bagnati ◽

Andrea Colombo ◽

Roberto Fanelli ◽

Roberto Miniero ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Limit Of Detection ◽

Perfluorooctanoic Acid ◽

Trophic Levels ◽

Sea Bream ◽

Farmed Fish ◽

European Sea Bass ◽

Marine Aquaculture ◽

Fishery Products ◽

The Mediterranean

The present study shows the results of perfuorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), brominated dioxins (PBDDs) and furans (PBDFs) measured in several marine fish and seafood of commercial interest at different trophic levels of the food chain. The aims were to investigate the level of the contamination in Mediterranean aquatic wildlife, and in farmed fish, to assess human exposure associated to fishery products consumption. Samples of wild fish were collected during three different sampling campaigns in different Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 37 areas of the Mediterranean Sea. In addition, farmed fish (gilthead sea bream and European sea bass) from off-shore cages from different marine aquaculture plants. Results showed contamination values of PFOS and PFOA were lower than those detected in sea basins other than the Mediterranean Sea. Concentration values of PFOS were generally higher than those of PFOA; moreover, levels in farmed fish were lower than in wild samples from the Mediterranean Sea. Intake of PFOS and PFOA through fishery products consumption was estimated to be 2.12 and 0.24 ng/kg·BW·day, respectively, for high consumers (95th percentile). Results of 2,3,7,8-substituted congeners of PBDDs and PBDFs were almost all below the limit of detection (LOD), making it difficult to establish the contribution of these compounds to the total contamination of dioxin-like compounds in fish and fishery products.

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Competition Policy in the Southern Mediterranean Countries

Review of Network Economics ◽

10.2202/1446-9022.1043 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Damien Geradin ◽

Nicolas Petit

Keyword(s):

Competition Policy ◽

The State ◽

Mediterranean Countries ◽

Adoption And Implementation ◽

Southern Mediterranean ◽

Competition Rules ◽

The Mediterranean

The main objective of this paper is to examine the state of adoption and implementation of competition rules in the 12 Southern Mediterranean countries (the "Mediterranean Partners") engaged in association agreements with the EC in the framework of the Barcelona Declaration of November 1995.

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New Mediterranean Marine biodiversity records (June 2013)

Mediterranean Marine Science ◽

10.12681/mms.450 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 238 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

I. SIOKOU ◽

A.S. ATES ◽

D. AYAS ◽

J. BEN SOUISSI ◽

T. CHATTERJEE ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Aegean Sea ◽

Marine Biodiversity ◽

Red Data Book ◽

Gulf Of Tunis ◽

The North ◽

Levantine Sea ◽

Data Book ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Flora Of Cyprus

This paper concerns records of species that have extended their distribution in the Mediterranean Sea. The finding of the rare brackish angiosperm Althenia filiformis in the island of Cyprus is interesting since its insertion in the Red Data Book of the Flora of Cyprus is suggested. The following species enriched the flora or fauna lists of the relevant countries: the red alga Sebdenia dichotoma (Greece), the hydrachnid mite Pontarachna adriatica (Slovenia), and the thalassinid Gebiacantha talismani (Turkey). Several alien species were recorded in new Mediterranean localities. The record of the burrowing goby Trypauchen vagina in the North Levantine Sea (Turkish coast), suggests the start of spreading of this Lessepsian immigrant in the Mediterranean Sea. The findings of the following species indicate the extension of their occurrence in the Mediterranean Sea: the foraminifer Amphistegina lobifera (island of Zakynthos, Greece), the medusa Cassiopea andromeda (Syria), the copepod Centropages furcatus (Aegean Sea), the decapod shrimp Melicertus hathor (island of Kastellorizo, Greece), the crab Menoethius monoceros (Gulf of Tunis), the barnacles Balanus trigonus, Megabalanus tintinnabulum, Megabalanus coccopoma and the bivalves Chama asperella, Cucurbitula cymbium (Saronikos Gulf, Greece).

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Mapping the impact of alien species on marine ecosystems: the Mediterranean Sea case study

Diversity and Distributions ◽

10.1111/ddi.12429 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (6) ◽

pp. 694-707 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

Stelios Katsanevakis ◽

Fernando Tempera ◽

Heliana Teixeira

Keyword(s):

Alien Species ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Marine Ecosystems ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The Impact

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Hemiasterella aristoteliana n. sp. (Porifera, Hadromerida) from the Aegean Sea with a discussion on the family Hemiasterellidae

Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde ◽

10.1163/26660644-06101004 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 61 (1) ◽

pp. 43-49 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Eleni Voultsiadou-Koukoura ◽

R.W.M. van Soest

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Aegean Sea ◽

Shallow Waters ◽

The Family ◽

The Status ◽

Northern Aegean Sea ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

First Time

A representative of the genus Hemiasterella Carter, 1879 was found for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea during sampling in the shallow waters of the northern Aegean Sea. The new species, H. aristoteliana, is compared with Atlantic Hemiasterella elongata Topsent, 1928. The status of the family Hemiasterellidae is discussed.

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Characterizing the Evolution of the Container Traffic Share in the Mediterranean Sea Using Hierarchical Clustering

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering ◽

10.3390/jmse6040121 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 121 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Manel Grifoll ◽

Thanassis Karlis ◽

M. Ortego

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Hierarchical Clustering ◽

System Analysis ◽

Compositional Data ◽

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Compositional Data Analysis ◽

Mediterranean Countries ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Combination Of Methods ◽

Port Infrastructure

This research investigates the traffic share evolution of the container throughput in the Mediterranean ports from 2000 to 2015 considering hierarchical clustering and concentration indexes. Compositional Data analysis techniques are used to illustrate periods with similar traffic share composition. Two different regions (East and West) in the Mediterranean Sea (Med) are selected in the function of the long haul services. The standard concentration indexes (i.e., concentration ratio, Gini coefficient, and Normalized Herfindahl-Hirschman) reveal a gentle decreasing of the concentration with relevant fluctuations mainly in the East region. This is due to the investment in port infrastructure in the area resulting from privatization initiatives in many Eastern Mediterranean countries. The periods obtained from the hierarchical clustering show a differentiated pattern in traffic share composition. For these periods, the shift-share results are consistent with traffic fluctuations and in line with the evolution of the concentration indexes. The combination of methods has allowed a good interpretation of the spatial and temporal evolution of the Med ports’ traffic being the methodology applicable elsewhere in the context of port system analysis.

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Functional biomedical hydrogels for in vivo imaging

Journal of Materials Chemistry B ◽

10.1039/c6tb02019d ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (48) ◽

pp. 7793-7812 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Kewen Lei ◽

Qian Ma ◽

Lin Yu ◽

Jiandong Ding

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

In Vivo Imaging ◽

Structure And Function ◽

Non Invasive ◽

The Status ◽

And Function

In vivo imaging of biomedical hydrogels enables real-time and non-invasive visualization of the status of structure and function of hydrogels.

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Allopodocotyle tunisiensis sp. nov. (Digenea, Opecoelidae), a parasite of Solea aegyptiaca (Teleostei, Soleidae) off Tunisia

Acta Parasitologica ◽

10.2478/s11686-009-0054-y ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 54 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Hela Derbel ◽

Lassad Neifar

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Seminal Vesicle ◽

Ventral Sucker ◽

Anterior Margin ◽

Gulf Of Gabes ◽

Gulf Of Gabès ◽

The Status ◽

The Mediterranean

AbstractAllopodocotyle tunisiensis sp. nov. is described from the intestine of Solea aegyptiaca Chabanaud collected from the Gulf of Gabès in the Mediterranean Sea off Tunisia. The new species belongs to the group C of Allopodocotyle Pritchard, 1966 species (sensu Bray 1987). It differs from its congeners in this group by the shape of the seminal vesicle and the anterior extend of the vitellarium which varies between just posterior to the ventral sucker and anterior margin. A key to the Allopodocotyle species of group C is presented. The status of the genera Allopodocotyle and Macvicaria (Gibson and Bray 1982) are briefly discussed.

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Characterisation of extreme events waves in marine ecosystems: the case of Mediterranean Sea

10.5194/bg-2020-34 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Valeria Di Biagio ◽

Gianpiero Cossarini ◽

Stefano Salon ◽

Cosimo Solidoro

Keyword(s):

Cluster Analysis ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Extreme Events ◽

Marine Ecosystems ◽

Horizontal Resolution ◽

Ecosystem Functions ◽

Biogeochemical Model ◽

Open Sea ◽

Basin Scale ◽

The Mediterranean

Abstract. We propose a new method to identify and characterise the occurrence of prolonged extreme events in marine ecosystems on the basin scale. There is a growing interest about events that can affect ecosystem functions and services in a changing climate. Our method identifies extreme events as peak occurrences over 99th percentile thresholds computed from local time series and defines an Extreme Events Wave (EEW) as a connected region including these events. The EEWs are characterised by a set of novel indexes, referred to initiation, extent, duration and strength. The indexes, associated to the areas covered by each EEW, are then statistically analysed to highlight the main features of the EEWs on the considered domain. We applied the method to the winter-spring daily chlorophyll field of a validated multidecadal hindcast provided by a coupled hydrodynamic-biogeochemical model of the Mediterranean open-sea ecosystem, with 1/12° horizontal resolution. This allowed to identify the maxima of chlorophyll as exceptionally high and prolonged blooms and to characterise their phenomenology in the period 1994–2012. A fuzzy k-means cluster analysis on the EEWs indexes provided a bio-regionalisation of the Mediterranean Sea associated to the occurrence of chlorophyll EEWs with different regimes.

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Marine mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of the Mediterranean Sea: Descriptions of two new species, key for identification and future prospects

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4585.3.6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4585 (3) ◽

pp. 501

Author(s):

VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ ◽

FURKAN DURUCAN ◽

ANDRZEJ ZAWAL

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Future Prospects ◽

Water Mite ◽

Levantine Sea ◽

Two New Species ◽

Marine Meiofauna ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Mite Family ◽

A Current

This paper provides a current overview of the diversity of the marine water mite family Pontarachnidae of the Mediterranean Sea. The checklist includes ten species from two genera, i.e. Litarachna Walter, 1925 and Pontarachna Philippi, 1840. Two species i.e., Litarachna muratsezgini sp. nov. and Pontarachna turcica sp. nov. from the Gulf of Antalya (Levantine Sea, Turkey), are described as new for science. Moreover, the key for the identification of Mediterranean Pontarachnidae species and a brief discussion on the current gaps and future prospects of our knowledge of this important but neglected component of the marine meiofauna are given.

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