Abstract Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME) in the deep Mediterranean Sea have been
identified by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean as consisting of …

The identification of nursery grounds and other essential fish habitats of exploited stocks is a
key requirement for the development of spatial conservation planning aimed at reducing the …

[EN] This chapter presents the state of the art concerning the deep-sea Mediterranean
environment: geology, hydrology, biology and fisheries. These are the fields of study dealt …

Following the recent expansion of the Brazilian fishery to slope fishing grounds, a new
directed trawl fishery for aristeid shrimps emerged since mid 2002. Aristaeopsis …

This paper explores structure and spatial distribution of fish assemblages in an area of the
central‐western Mediterranean Sea (south Sardinian deep‐waters) at depths between 546 …

The deep waters of the Greek seas are unexploited, since trawling is carried out mainly
down to 400 m In the present work, the fisheries resources of the deep waters (300 900 m) of …

Simple Summary This research investigated microplastic ingestion in two marine crustacean
species of high commercial importance, namely the Giant Red Shrimp Aristaeomorpha …

[EN] The object of the DESEAS Project, funded by the EC, was to gather preliminary data on
the abundance and maximum depth distribution of the rose shrimp Aristeusantennatus in the …

Data on the distribution, abundance and biological parameters of the giant red shrimp
Aristaeomorphafoliacea were collected during a research survey in deep waters (600-4000 …

Data on the size distribution and population biology of the deep-water shrimp Aristeus
antennatus were collected during four trawl surveys carried out along the Italian coasts …