Recent studies have shown that coastal and shelf cephalopod populations have increased
globally over the last six decades. Although cephalopod landings are dominated by the …

Dietary descriptions based on stomach content are pervasive regardless of the biases
concerning its methodology, statistics and descriptors. We here review different biases on …

This is the second volume of the entirely rewritten, revised and updated version of the
original FAO Catalogue of Cephalopods of the World (1984). The present Volume is a …

An exploited ecosystem from the continental shelf and upper slope of the Northwestern
Mediterranean Sea was described by means of an Ecopath mass-balance model with the …

A trophic mass-balance model was developed to characterise the food web structure and
functioning of the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea and to quantify the ecosystem impacts …

Reproductive and energy allocation analyses were performed on 1418 common octopus
(Octopus vulgaris) from the Galician creel fishery (NE Atlantic) between May 2000 and …

Overview Eight years of octopus fishery records from southwest Madagascar reveal
significant positive impacts from 36 periodic closures on:(a) fishery catches and (b) village …

The capability to detect and predict the responses of marine populations and communities to
the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs) depends on the ability to distinguish …

The common octopus Octopus vulgaris is the most important demersal species in landings
from the whole Gulf of Cádiz. Monthly samplings from trawl and artisanal gears were carried …

Abstract Changes in the protein, lipid, glycogen, cholesterol and energy contents, total
amino acid and fatty acid profiles of Octopus vulgaris and O. defilippi tissues (gonad …