Egypt is the world's ninth-largest fish producer with a total production of 1.5 billion tons per
year, and farmed fishes comprise almost 79.6% of the total production. Massive mortalities in …

Disease outbreaks in several ecologically or commercially important invertebrate marine
species have been reported in recent years all over the world. Mass mortality events (MMEs) …

Biological invasions have become a defining feature of marine Mediterranean ecosystems
with significant impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health. We …

From May to October 2019, multiple mass mortality events (MMEs) of Pinna nobilis were
observed along Croatian coastline starting from the south-east and rapidly progressing in …

We identified areas with high individual densities of the pen shell, Pinna nobilis, in two areas
along the Croatian Adriatic coast. The surveys carried out in 2018 and 2019 showed …

Purpose Pinna nobilis (fan mussel) is one of the most important endemic bivalve molluscs in
the Mediterranean and mass mortality events were observed in these mussels in recent …

Pinna nobilis populations, constituting the largest bivalve mollusk endemic to the
Mediterranean, is characterized as critically endangered, threatened by extinction. Among …

A devastating mass mortality event (MME) very likely caused by the protozoan
Haplosporidium pinnae first detected in 2016 in the Western Mediterranean Sea, is pushing …

Introduction The widespread mass mortality of the noble pen shell (Pinna nobilis) has
occurred in several Mediterranean countries in the past 7 years. Single-stranded RNA …

A mass mortality event (MME) affecting the fan mussel Pinna nobilis was first detected in
Spain in autumn 2016 and spread north-and eastward through the Mediterranean Sea …