Microplastics in the Deep: Comparing Dietary and Plastic Ingestion Data between Two Mediterranean Bathyal Opportunistic Feeder Species, Galeus melastomus, Rafinesque …

U Scacco, E Mancini, F Marcucci… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Marine plastic pollution is currently an issue of mounting concern around the world. Stomach
content of marine fish has been increasingly used as a valid proxy for detecting the …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of discards along a wide bathymetric range from a trawl fishery in the NW Mediterranean

M Blanco, D Nos, A Lombarte, L Recasens… - Fisheries …, 2023 - Elsevier
Discards represent a loss of natural resources and negatively affect the sustainability of
fisheries. Information on discards, such as diversity and size of the species discarded is …

Assessing the stock dynamics of Elasmobranchii off the southern coast of Sicily by using trawl survey data

F Falsone, V Gancitano, ML Geraci, G Sardo… - Fishes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays), which have peculiar and vulnerable life-history traits, are
highly threatened by fishing activities. Indeed, between 53% and 71% of Mediterranean …

Benthic litter in the continental slope of the Gulf of Naples (central-western Mediterranean Sea) hosts limited fouling communities but facilitates molluscan spawning

L Rizzo, R Minichino, R Virgili, V Tanduo, D Osca… - Marine Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seafloor pollution by benthic litter is an emerging phenomenon, although debris
colonization by biota remains largely unexplored. We characterized the litter of the …

Efficient and sustainable: innovative pot design for a Mediterranean small-scale fishery

M Virgili, A Petetta, B Herrmann, K Cerbule… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Pots are traditional fishing gear type largely employed in Mediterranean Small Scale
Fisheries (SSFs). Their often higher species selectivity and catch quality compared to other …

Impact of Hermodice carunculata (Pallas, 1766)(Polychaeta: Amphinomidae) on artisanal fishery: A case study from the Mediterranean sea

F Tiralongo, S Marino, S Ignoto, R Martellucci… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Invasive species can cause severe economic damages, ecosystem alterations, and can
even threat human health. In the global warming scenario, which can act as a driving force …

Net gain: Low‐cost, trawl‐associated eDNA samplers upscale ecological assessment of marine demersal communities

G Maiello, L Talarico, C Brodie, P Carpentieri… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Marine biodiversity stewardship requires costly and time‐consuming capture‐based
monitoring techniques, which limit our understanding of the distribution and status of marine …

First evidence of population genetic structure of the deep-water blackmouth catshark Galeus melastomus Rafinesque, 1810

S Di Crescenzo, A Ferrari, C Barría… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Among the main measures adopted to reduce anthropogenic impacts on elasmobranch
communities, understanding the ecology of deep-sea sharks is of paramount importance …

First evidence of in vitro cytotoxic effects of marine microlitter on Merluccius merluccius and Mullus barbatus, two Mediterranean commercial fish species

A Miccoli, E Mancini, PR Saraceni… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Marine litter is composed mainly of plastics and is recognized as a serious threat to marine
ecosystems. Ecotoxicological approaches have started elucidating the potential severity of …

[HTML][HTML] Unravelling the deep: Assessing the bycatch of deep-sea elasmobranchs in crustacean bottom trawl fisheries in Portugal

SG Aranha, E Dias, T Marsili, A Barkai, N Queiroz… - Marine Policy, 2025 - Elsevier
Deep-sea elasmobranchs (DSE) play a crucial role in marine ecosystems. However, they
are poorly studied and face threats from overfishing, emphasizing an urgent need for …