Martina Scanu

Italian National Research Council | CNR · Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies - IRBIM

The COVID-19 pandemic had major impacts on the seafood supply chain, also reducing fishing activity. It is worth asking if the fish stocks in the Mediterranean Sea, which in most cases have been in overfishing conditions for many years, may have benefitted from the reduction in the fishing pressure. The present work is the first attempt to make a q...

An integrated ecological monitoring is implemented as part of a multidisciplinary approach based on the use of lowimpacting monitoring techniques for the ecological mapping of an artificial reef located in the central Adriatic Sea. The aim was to identify ecosystem functions and services the area could provide and lay down the basis for improving m...

The main objective of the workshop was to review the recommendations of WKREF1 and consider how these might feed into a new reference points framework and guidelines for ICES. There were a number of presentations on the wider issues of best practice for reference points, the Allee effect, density dependence and the WKIRISH approach. The starting po...

An additional session of the Working Group on Stock Assessment of Demersal Species (WGSAD) dedicated to giant red shrimp (Aristaeomorpha foliacea; ARS) and blue and red shrimp (Aristeus antennatus; ARA) in the eastern–central Mediterranean was held online on 8–11 February 2022. The main objective of this meeting was to advance the assessment of the...

International scientific fishery survey programmes systematically collect samples of target stocks’ biomass and abundance and use them as the basis to estimate stock status in the framework of stock assessment models. The research surveys can also inform decision makers about Essential Fish Habitat conservation and help define harvest control rules...

Marine Recreational Fishing (MRF) is a highly attended complex activity, extremely evident along the coastlines, and mainly practiced among riparian communities. For that reason, this activity plays an important role to effectively contribute to the collective well-being, both from the social and economic points of view. However, it may negatively...

The knowledge of small-scale fisheries (SSFs) is important to develop management policies and mitigate the competition for marine resources. However, spatially explicit information is often unavailable at the regional and subregional scale. We designed and tested a novel participatory approach to map the SSF fishing effort using the Mediterranean s...

Information on stock status is available only for a few of the species forming the catch assemblage of rapido fishery of the North-central Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Species that are caught almost exclusively by this gear, either as target (such as Pectinidae) or accessory catches (such as flatfishes apart from the common sole), remain unass...

The paper presents a database of information on wrecks, natural and artificial reefs located in the Adriatic Sea, collected within the framework of the Interreg Italy–Croatia project ADRIREEF – Innovative exploitation of Adriatic Reefs in order to strengthen Blue Economy. The data collection lasted more than 1 year and included three surveys and a...

In the Mediterranean Sea, fishing vessels often operate throughout the geographical subdivisions adopted for statistical data collection (Geographical Sub-Areas; GSAs), causing a potential mismatch between catches site and reporting site. This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the fluxes of fishing activity of bottom trawlers across the M...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Working Group on Stock Assessment of Demersal Species (WGSAD) benchmark session for the assessment of common sole (Solea solea) in the Adriatic Sea 1-geographical subarea (GSA) 17-was held online on 12-16 April 2021. The objective of the meeting was to perform a full analysis and review of the information and methods used to...

The paper presents a database of information on wrecks, natural and artificial reefs located in the Adriatic Sea, collected within the framework of the Interreg Italy-Croatia project ADRIREEF – Innovative exploitation of Adriatic Reefs in order to strengthen Blue Economy. The data collection lasted more than one year and comprehended three surveys...

Fishery discard survival depends on multiple conditions; caution is essential when survival study outputs are employed to support management decisions. The study presents a stepwise procedure, devised to estimate discard survival, that accounts for the variability characterizing commercial fishing practices. The procedure was applied to the first s...

The Adriatic Sea is one of the world’s most heavily exploited areas, with a large number and variety of commercial important species caught and a wide range of fishing methods employed. In this basin, small-scale fisheries (SSFs), performed by fishing vessels of an overall length <12 m and not using towed gear, play a major socioeconomic role. The...

This two-year study evaluates the effects of new management strategies directed at helping the recovery of Adriatic cuttlefish populations. The ability of three specially developed artificial spawning devices–seagrass collectors (SC; deployed on artificial reefs), longline collectors (LC; deployed at mussel farms), and trap collectors (TC; delivere...

This protocol refers to a study having the aim to identify and test at field artificial structures suitable as collectors for common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis eggs in wild condition. During the same study, three different protocols were tested and compared. This one refers to the named 'trap' collector protocol, due to the adoption of trap struc...

These protocols refer to a study having the aim to identify and test at field artificial structures suitable as collectors for common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis eggs in wild condition for restocking purpose. During the same study, three different protocols were tested and compared. The 'seagrass' collector, the 'longline' collector and the 'trap'...

This protocol refers to a study having the aim to identify and test at field artificial structures suitable as collectors for common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis eggs in wild condition. During the same study, three different protocols were tested and compared. This one refers to the named 'seagrass' collector protocol, due to their similarity to th...

This protocol refers to a study having the aim to identify and test at field artificial structures suitable as collectors for common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis eggs in wild condition. During the same study, three different protocols were tested and compared. This one refers to the named 'longline' collector protocol, due to their similarity to th...

Serra d'Irta (Castellón, Spain) was declared marine reserve of fishing interest (MRFI) in 2003 with the objective of favouring the regeneration of marine resources. This work presents the results obtained in the monitoring studies realized in this reserve during summer of 2017 using different marine macrophyte indexes. The aim of this study was to...

How animals integrate different sensory information for orientation is a complex process involving interactions between a variety of internal and external factors. Due to this complexity, each component of a suite of factors is typically studied in isolation. Here, we examine how an internal factor (personality of fish) influences the response of z...