FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI The MEDITS trawl survey specifications in an ecosystem approach to fishery management BT AF SPEDICATO, Maria Teresa MASSUTI, Enric MERIGOT, Bastien TSERPES, George JADAUD, Angelique RELINI, Giulio AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:6; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LHM;6:; C1 COISPA Tecnol & Ric, Via Trulli 18, I-70126 Bari, Italy. Ctr Oceanog Balears, Intituto Espafiol Oceanog, Moll Ponent S-N, Palma De Mallorca 07015, Illes Baleares, Spain. Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, MARBEC, Sete, France. Hellen Ctr Marine Res, Inst Marine Biol Resources & Inland Waters, Iraklion 71003, Greece. Univ Montpellier, MARBEC IFREMER, CNRS, IRD, Ave Jean Monnet,CS 30171, F-34203 Sete, France. Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Sci Terra Ambiente & Vita DISTAV, Corso Europa 26, I-16132 Genoa, Italy. C2 COISPA TECNOL & RIC, ITALY IEO, SPAIN UNIV MONTPELLIER, FRANCE HELLENIC CTR MARINE RES, GREECE IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV GENOA, ITALY SI SETE SE PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LHM UM MARBEC IN WOS Ifremer UMR WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france IF 1.172 TC 105 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00600/71216/69592.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00600/71216/76815.pdf LA English DT Article CR MEDITS DE ;demersal resources;trawl survey;sampling;Mediterranean AB 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. PY 2019 PD DEC SO Scientia Marina SN 0214-8358 PU Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas-csic VL 83 IS S1 UT 000504829900001 BP 9 EP 20 DI 10.3989/scimar.04915.11X ID 71216 ER EF