R. Baino's research while affiliated with The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and other places

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1. The Mediterranean starry ray (Raja asterias) populations within the Mediterranean Sea are susceptible to high rates of bycatch in the multispecies trawl fisheries. Understanding its population structure and identifying critical habitats are crucial for assessing species vulnerability and setting the groundwork for specific management measures to...
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Chondrichthyan egg cases are important elements for species-specific identification and also provide a valuable aid in determining a species spatial distribution, as well as for defining spawning areas. Considering the absence of a general key for the identification of the egg cases of the Mediterranean Chondrichthyes, this work aims to fill this g...
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Small-scale fisheries represent one of the most important fishing sectors in Italy, comprising 60% of Italian fishing vessels, half the fishers and 16% of national landings. Despite their high social, economic and cultural value, they have been neglected by national and international policies, resulting in a poor outlook for the near future. In thi...
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The Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring (MEDLEM) database contains over 3000 records (more than 4000 individuals) of large elasmobranch species from 20 different countries around the Mediterranean and Black seas, observed from 1666 to 2017. The main species included in the archive are the devil fish (1 813 individuals), the basking shark (...
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Few stock assessments of elasmobranchs have been conducted in the Mediterranean due to the lack of available detailed and precise information. In recent years, in the Mediterranean Sea a major concern on the status of this group does exist and consequently scientists and managers have paid a major attention on the collection of data of fisheries in...
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It is presented the analyses on the MEDLEM (Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring) database that, up to now, contains more than 2000 records and over 2700 individuals of large elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean coming from 20 different countries. The main species represented in the archive are devil rays (736 individuals), basking sharks (ab...
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Few formal stock assessments of elasmobranchs have been conducted in the Mediterranean. This because the information needed is not enough detailed and precise. In recent years, also in the Mediterranean Sea a major concern on the exploitation status of the stocks, belonging to this group, is increased and scientists and managers have paid a major a...
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Few formal stock assessments of elasmobranchs have been conducted in the Mediterranean. This because the information needed is not enough detailed and precise. In recent years, also in the Mediterranean Sea a major concern on the exploitation status of the stocks, belonging to this group, is increased and scientists and managers have paid a major a...
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The Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring (MEDLEM) database contains more than 2000 records (n>3000 individuals) of large elasmobranchs species from 20 different countries around the Mediterranean Sea caught or observed from 1666 to 2014. The main species represented in the archive are devil rays (736 individuals), basking sharks (682 indivi...
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The skates living in the Mediterranean Sea are distributed all around the basin with different patterns of biomass. The occurrence of the skates is strictly connected with the edaphic and biological characteristics of the sea bottom. Different patterns of overexploitation are present overall in the industrialised areas as the north west of the M...

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... By contrast, Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas showed the highest genetic diversity levels of the Mediterranean and some evidence of genetic differentiation. These two areas have been described as important nursery areas for several elasmobranch species [56]. This could explain the higher diversity values, since individuals from different areas of the Mediterranean would be mating there. ...
... Due to their life history characteristics and to the fact that sharks and rays are particularly susceptible to overexploitation in Mediterranean Sea, there is greater and emerging conservation concern for chondrichthyans in this area respect to the rest of the world [2]. Although in recent years the knowledge on the presence and distribution of these fish species has been the subject of numerous research efforts [3,4], many gaps still remain today. In the last IUCN Regional ...
... Moore [41] investigated the extinction risks and conservation actions toward Guitarfishes as unique cartilaginous fishes. Mancusi et al. [42] worked on the data collection regarding the large Elasmobranches inhabiting the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Some scientific reports and articles have found their way to the Mediterranean Sea in the Gaza Strip describing some of its vertebrate biodiversity. ...
... In particular, the Mediterranean is one of the most overexploited seas in the world [2,3], with 73% of stocks found outside biologically sustainable limits in 2020 [4]. Fisheries in the region (especially small-scale ones) have been suffering decades-long crisis, mostly due to a reduction in finfish, crustacean and mollusk stocks [5,6]. Overfishing causes the loss of marine habitats and fish stocks, which can, in turn, jeopardize the functioning of ecosystems and the services these generate [7,8]. ...
... The MEDLEM program was launched in 1985 [10] and adopted by FAO-GFCM and UNEP-RAC/SPA respectively in 2005 and 2009. The "Shark Specialist Group" of the International Union of the Conservation of the Nature and the "European Elasmobranchs Association" are partners [11]. ...
... Specimens were identified on board or in the lab using morphological taxonomic characters according to guidelines provided in [83]. A p-distance metric with pairwise deletion was used for sequence comparisons [84]. ...