This review focuses on the recent data on Mediterranean fishing fleets and landings, results
from stock assessments and ecosystem models to provide an overview of the multiple …

As marine aquaculture expands around the world, there is increased concern for impacts to
protected species. Documented cases of marine mammal, sea turtle, seabird, and shark …

The need for implementing efficient value-adding tools able to optimise Earth Observation
data usage, compels the scientific community to find innovative solutions for the downstream …

Abstract The Mediterranean Sea has been defined “under siege” because of intense
pressures from multiple human activities; yet there is still insufficient information on the …

We performed a global assessment of how fish biomass has changed over the last 100 yr,
applying a previously developed methodology using ecological modeling. Our assessment …

Trophic level (TL)-based indicators have been widely used to examine fishing impacts in
aquatic ecosystems and the induced biodiversity changes. However, much debate has …

Abstract IndiSeas (“Indicators for the Seas”) is a collaborative international working group
that was established in 2005 to evaluate the status of exploited marine ecosystems using a …

Despite the recognized important ecological role that cetaceans play in the marine
environment, their protection is still scarcely enforced in the Mediterranean Sea even though …

Ecological modelling tools are applied worldwide to support the ecosystem‐based approach
of marine resources (EAM). In the last decades, numerous applications were attempted in …

Background The expansion of fishing activities has intensively transformed marine
ecosystems worldwide. However, available time series do not frequently cover historical …