The MEDITS trawl survey specifications in an ecosystem approach to fishery management
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| Date | 2019-12 | ||||||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Author(s) | Spedicato Maria Teresa1, Massuti Enric2, Merigot Bastien3, Tserpes George4, Jadaud Angelique5, Relini Giulio6 | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation(s) | 1 : COISPA Tecnol & Ric, Via Trulli 18, I-70126 Bari, Italy. 2 : Ctr Oceanog Balears, Intituto Espafiol Oceanog, Moll Ponent S-N, Palma De Mallorca 07015, Illes Baleares, Spain. 3 : Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, MARBEC, Sete, France. 4 : Hellen Ctr Marine Res, Inst Marine Biol Resources & Inland Waters, Iraklion 71003, Greece. 5 : Univ Montpellier, MARBEC IFREMER, CNRS, IRD, Ave Jean Monnet,CS 30171, F-34203 Sete, France. 6 : Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Sci Terra Ambiente & Vita DISTAV, Corso Europa 26, I-16132 Genoa, Italy. |
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| Source | Scientia Marina (0214-8358) (Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas-csic), 2019-12 , Vol. 83 , N. S1 , P. 9-20 | ||||||||||||
| DOI | 10.3989/scimar.04915.11X | ||||||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 74 | ||||||||||||
| Note | Mediterranean demersal resources and ecosystems: 25 years of MEDITS trawl surveys M.T. Spedicato, G. Tserpes, B. Mérigot and E. Massutí (eds) | ||||||||||||
| Keyword(s) | demersal resources, trawl survey, sampling, Mediterranean | ||||||||||||
| Abstract | The MEDITS programme started in 1994 in the Mediterranean with the cooperation among research institutes from four countries: France, Greece, Italy and Spain. Over the years, until the advent of the European framework for the collection and management of fisheries data (the Data Collection Framework. DCF), new partners from Slovenia, Croatia. Albania, Montenegro, Malta and Cyprus joined MEDITS. The FAO regional projects facilitated the cooperation with non-European countries. MEDITS applies a common sampling protocol and methodology for sample collection, data storage and data quality checks (RoME routines). For many years, MEDITS represented the most important data source supporting the evaluation of demersal resources by means of population and community indicators, assessment and simulation models based on fishery-independent data. With the consolidation of the DCF, MEDITS routinely provides abundance indices of target species for tuning stock assessment models of intermediate complexity. Over the years, the survey scope has broadened from the population of demersal species to their fish community and ecosystems. and it has faced new challenges, such as the identification of essential fish habitats, providing new scientific insights linked to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (e.g. biodiversity, trophic webs, allochthonous species and marine macro-litter evaluations) and to the ecosystem approach to fishery and marine spatial planning. | ||||||||||||
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