AdSWiM project celebrates World Ocean Day 2021 with reefballs placement next to Lignano Coast (Italy)
AdSWiM project celebrates World Ocean Day 2021 by placing reefballs next to Lignano Coast, in the Adriatic Sea, to enhance marine habitat. AdSWiM project is coordinated by twelve partners working against marine water pollution to improve the quality of Adriatic Sea and coastal waters with innovative technologies in quality monitoring, treatment and management of urban […]
DORY – Capitalization actions for aDriatic marine envirOnment pRotection and ecosYstem based management
The project DORY, capitalizing the results of the IPA Adriatic ECOSEA project, intends to promote the adoption of common management models for supporting sustainable fisheries and development of alternative spatial management measures. The pilot activities will test the innovative solutions for reducing the negative aquaculture ecological impact of the economic activities and to, on the […]
SUSHI DROP – SUstainable fiSHeries wIth DROnes data Processing
Within SUSHI-DROP, a customized unmanned underwater vehicles will be developed and equipped with acoustical and optical technologies in order to implement a non-invasive mean to assess environmental status of habitats, fish stocks population and, in general, to monitor the biodiversity of marine ecosystems. We are planning to assess the accuracy of the opto-acoustic surveys in […]
FAIRSEA Fisheries in the AdriatIc Region – a Shared Ecosystem Approach
The FAIRSEA project aims at enhancing transnational capacity and cooperation in the field of an ecosystem approach to fisheries in the Adriatic region by exchanging knowledge and sharing good practices among partners. The complementary expertise of the partners is shared, interlinked and integrated, considering also challenges and opportunities identified by stakeholders. The efforts are embedded […]
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 […]