ESAmar – Exploration of ecologically sensitive areas with special emphasis on growth, development and protection of commercially important maritime organisms

Biological renewable resources in the Adriatic are composed mainly from demersal and pelagic fish, crustacean and cephalopods species. Status of their population size, strongly depends on the intensity of exploration as well as on the intensity of recruitment because in general, sustainability of population depends on successful recruitment of young fish in nursery areas and migration […]

BivACME – Bivalves: Archives of environmental Change in the coastal Marine Ecosystems

The main objective of the BivACME study is to identify how ecosystem change affects growth dynamics of bivalves inhabiting coastal environments in the Adriatic Sea. This objective will be reached through realisation of specific objectives, which will enable sequential progress of the project. Specific research objectives may be divided in two groups. The first group of […]

ARGOS – Shared Governance of Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Activities as Leverage to Protect Marine Resources in the Adriatic Sea

Project ARGOS -ShARed GOvernance of Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture activities as leverage to protect marine resources in the Adriatic Sea is co-financed by the Interreg Italy Croatia programme 2014-2020. The project started on 1st of April 2020 and will finish with its activities on 31st of December 2020. Project is based on a wide scale partnership that […]

ADRICOSM Pilot Project

ADRICOSM is a Pilot Project that aims to implement an integrated coastal zone management system in the Adriatic Sea, consisting of a predictive circulation module and a river basin and wastewater management module. The aim is the prediction of coastal current variability in Near Real Time (NRT), and the monitoring and modeling of a river basin and wastewater system in a test site. In particular a […]

Coordination Meeting of County Operational Centers

With co-operation with Sibenik-Knin County ATRAC organized and held “The 3rd Co-ordination Meeting of County Operational Centers for the improvement of preparedness and response to oil spills”. Co-ordination was held from 9 to 10 June 2021 in Sibenik, bringing together the members of Operational Centers of all Croatian`s coastal Counties. Like the previous two, this Coordination […]

ATRAC returns from the mission in Lebanon

After two weeks in Lebanon, ATRAC’s Director Vedran Martinić and associate Anja Pilepić returned to Croatia. The purpose of such trip during these pandemic times was to advise the Lebanese authorities on removing marine pollution, to assess the extent of pollution, to assist national and local authorities in ongoing clean-up operations, and to provide guidelines […]