Antonio Di Cintio

Università di Pisa | UNIPI · Department of Biology

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a common management tool for preserving marine biodiversity and halting resource depletion. Despite the number of MPAs rapidly increasing worldwide, there are concerns over the full achievement of their objectives. Indeed, in some cases—the phenomenon of so-called “paper parks”—protected areas totally fail to achie...

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a common management tool for preserving marine biodiversity and halting resource depletion. The number of MPAs is rapidly increasing worldwide to achieve the global targets agreed under the Convention on Biological Diversity. Nonetheless, MPAs often achieve their objectives only partially. In some cases – the so-ca...

Small-scale fisheries in Italy account for around 70% of the total fishing fleet, as well as nearly 30% and 55% of capture-fisheries revenues and employment, respectively. Yet, the sector is experiencing a deep crisis, mostly due to reduced catches and to the consequent decrease in revenues. At the same time, a lack of socio-economic data is hamper...

The paper summarizes the methods and results of a three years socio-economic study (2015–2017) on the bottom trawl fleet targeting Deep water rose shrimp (Parapenaeus longirostris) and European hake (Merluccius merluccius) in North Tunisia. Socio-economic data collected were processed to estimate 25 indicators related to employment, activity, demog...

This paper presents a characterisation of the fishing fleet operating in Campania, one of the twenty administrative Regions of Italy. An analysis of the contribution of the regional fleet to the national fishing capacity is also provided.. The fleet is characterised according to its technical features (number of vessels, tonnage, engine power, leng...

Seafood certification in developing countries

During the last decades, scientific community has been investigating both biological and hydrographic processes that affect fisheries. Such an interdisciplinary and synergic approach is nowadays giving a fundamental contribution, in particular, in connecting the dots between hydrographic phenomena and biomass variability and distribution of small p...

Ecological connectivity is one of the most important processes that shape marine populations and ecosystems, determining their distribution, persistence, and productivity. Here we use the synergy of Lagrangian back-trajectories, otolith-derived ages of larvae, and satellite-based chlorophyll-a to identify spawning areas of European anchovy from ich...

Methodology for assessing the impacts of marine currents over fish larvae and egg transportation

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) eco—label certifies that seafood comes from a sustainable source. The use of this eco—label lags behind in the developing world, where ecosystem approaches to fishery management have not yet been widely implemented. However, the Food and Agriculture Organization under its REBYC—II LAC project is addressing ecosy...