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 TECHNICAL DOCUMENT

Title:

GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Report of the MedSudMed Expert Consultation on Small Pelagic Fishes: Stock Identification and Oceanographic Processes Influencing their Abundance and Distribution  


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 Authors:  Levi, D. - Bahri, T. - Basilone, G. - Ben Abdallah, L. - Bonanno, A. - Gaamour, A. - Patti, B. - Zarrad, R.
 Pages:  132

Publication year:

 2004  
 Keywords: expert consultation - oceanographic processes - small pelagic fish - stock identification
Abstract:

The Expert Consultation on Small Pelagic Fish: Stock Identification and Oceanographic Processes Influencing Their Abundance and Distribution was held from 1 to 3 October 2003 in Salammbô, Tunisia, and was hosted by the Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer (INSTM). The meeting was attended by 19 experts from 5 institutions in the Project Area, as well as representatives of the FAO Regional Projects AdriaMed and Copemed. Fourteen communications were presented; they covered such issues as results of stock assessment carried out by echo-surveys in the Project area, spatial distribution of the main target species, results of the acoustic identification of small pelagic fish species, reproductive strategy and reproductive biology (reproductive cycle, maturity stages, age and growth), small pelagic fisheries, spatial distribution and modelling of fishing effort, influence of meteorological and hydrographical factors on small pelagic fish. The experience of the AdriaMed Project in promoting international cooperative research on shared small-pelagic fish stocks of the Adriatic Sea was presented, as well as the main results of the Workshop on Environmental Variability and Small-Pelagic Fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea organized by the Copemed Project. The priority list of species that future activities should concentrate on was discussed in the light of the GFCM priorityspecies list, economic and ecological importance, and taking into account the peculiarities of each country. A short synthesis of gaps in the knowledge of the biotic and abiotic factors and oceanographic processes influencing the distribution and abundance of small pelagic fish species was made. The main gaps identified concern: the migration of adults, transport of eggs and larvae, and the effect of abiotic factors. Many data are presently collected during the echo-surveys, but they remain insufficient to conduct ecosystem-based studies. The lack of interdisciplinary studies in the area remains one of the main gaps. A series of proposals was discussed, dealing with: (i) spatial distribution and stock assessment of small-pelagic-fish populations; (ii) biological and genetic studies; (iii) eggs and larvae; (iv) relationships between biotic and abiotic factors and life-cycles of small pelagic fish species; (v) fishery analysis and catch and effort data. The importance of developing a functional data base for acoustic data resulting from echo-surveys was discussed and agreed upon.

 

Annexes Contained

Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Coupling between the hydrographic circulation in the Strait of Sicily and the reproductive strategy of the European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus: effects on distribution of spawning grounds


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 Authors:  Patti, B. - Cuttitta, A. - Bonanno, A. - Basilone, G. - Buscaino, G. - Patti, C. - Garcia Lafuente, J. - Garcia, A. - Mazzola, S.
 Pages:  9

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: Engraulis encrasicolus - environmental factors - European anchovy - ichtyoplankton - reproductive biology - satellite data - small pelagic fish - spawning areas
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Répartition géographique et estimation de la biomasse des petits pélagiques des côtes tunisiennes


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 Authors:  Ben Abdallah, L. - Gaamour, A.
 Pages:  11

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: acoustics - small pelagic fish - spatial distribution - stock assessment - Tunisia
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Fluctuation of sardine and anchovy abundance in the Strait of Sicily investigated by acoustic surveys


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 Authors:  Bonanno, A. - Patti, B. - Goncharov, S. - Basilone, G. - Cuttitta, A. - Buscaino, G. - Garcia Lafuente, J. - Garcia, A. - Palumbo, V. - Cancemi, M. - Mazzola, S.
 Pages:  9

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: anchovy - Engraulis encrasicolus - Sardina pilchardus - sardine - small pelagic fish - stock assessment - Strait of Sicily
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Etudes de la biologie et de l’exploitation des petits pélagiques en Tunisie


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 Authors:  Gaamour, A. - Ben Abdallah, L.- Khemiri, S. - Mili, S.
 Pages:  19

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: demographic parameters - otolith - reproductive biology - sexual maturity - small pelagic fish - stock assessment - Tunisia
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Reproductive aspects of the European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus): six years of observations in the Strait of Sicily


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 Authors:  Basilone, G. - Patti, B.- Cuttitta, A. - Vergara, A.R. - Garcia, A. - Mazzola, S. - Buscaino, G.
 Pages:  12

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: demographic parameters - Engraulis encrasicolus - European anchovy - reproductive biology - Strait of Sicily
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Growth of the European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in the Strait of Sicily


297 KB

 Authors:  Basilone, G. - Patti, B.- Mazzola, S. - Cuttitta, A. - Bonanno, A. - Sposito, P. - Kallianiotis, A.
 Pages:  11

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: demographic parameters - Engraulis encrasicolus - European anchovy - length composition - otolith - Strait of Sicily
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Acoustic identification of small-pelagic-fish species: target-strength analysis and school-descriptor classification


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 Authors:  Hannachi, M.S. - Ben Abdallah, L. - Marrakchi, O.
 Pages:  10

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: acoustics - anchovy - Engraulis encrasicolus - horse mackerel - neural networks - Sardina pilchardus - sardine - school descriptors - target strength - Trachurus trachurus
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Distribution, abundance and biological features of picarel (Spicara flexuosa), Mediterranean (Trachurus mediterraneus) and Atlantic (T. trachurus) horse mackerel based on experimental bottom-trawl data (MEDITS, 1994–2002) in the Strait of Sicily


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 Authors:  Ragonese, S. - Fiorentino, F. - Garofalo, G. - Gristina, M. - Levi, D. - Gancitano, S. - Giusto, G.B. - Rizzo, P. - Sinacori, G.
 Pages:  15

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: anchovy - demographic parameters - Engraulis encrasicolus - horse mackerel - picarel - Sardina pilchardus - sardine - sexual maturity - small pelagic fish - Spicara flexuosa - Strait of Sicily - Trachurus mediterraneus - Trachurus trachurus
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Methodology adopted for the study of eggs and larvae of small-pelagic fishes in Tunisian waters


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 Authors:  Zarrad, R. - Bedoui, R.
 Pages:  3

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: ichtyoplankton - Tunisia
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Overview of the available information on the fisheries for small-pelagic fish in Maltese waters


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 Authors:  Muscat, E.
 Pages:  6

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: catch statistics - fishing effort - Malta - small pelagic fish - spatial distribution
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Design of a geographical information system prototype for the management of fishing with light in the Gulf of Tunis (Methodology)


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 Authors:  Ben Rais Lasram, F. - Gana, S. - Ben Abdallah, L. - Bel Hadj Ali, A.
 Pages:  3

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: GIS - fishing effort - numerical modelling - small pelagic fish
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
The influence of meteorological parameters on fisheries, especially those on small-pelagic-fish species


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 Authors:  Gauci, F.
 Pages:  1

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: meteorology - small pelagic fish
Title:
ANNEX of GCP/RER/010/ITA/MSM-05 (MedSudMed Technical Documents n°5)
Outline of the results of the COPEMED International Workshop on Environmental Variability and Small-Pelagic Fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea


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 Authors:  Hernandez, P.
 Pages:  5

Publication year:

 2005  
 Keywords: environmental factors - Mediterranean Sea - small pelagic fish - workshop
 

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