In order to halt the loss of global biodiversity and considering the United Nations Decade for
Ocean Conservation Agenda, increasing efforts to improve biomonitoring programs and …

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

Pioneering deep-sea surveys established that the fauna of the continental margins is zoned
in the sense that individual species and assemblages occupy restricted depth bands. It has …

Concentrations of organophosphate esters (OPEs) plasticizers were analysed in the present
study. Fifty-five fish samples belonging to three highly commercial species, European …

The patterns of occurrence and bathymetric distribution of epibenthic crustaceans on the
continental shelf and upper slope down to a depth of 800 m are analysed based on data …

This study aims to advance knowledge of the discards from bottom trawling in the
northwestern Mediterranean. The composition of bottom trawl landings and discards is …

The assemblages of the demersal fish fauna of the Azores Archipelago are described from
longline surveys that extended from the coastline to 1200 m water depth. A total of 104 fish …

The demersal resources distributed in the trawl fishing grounds off the Balearic Islands
(western Mediterranean) were studied from two bottom trawl surveys carried out in spring …

The analysis of 131 hauls from four bottom trawl fishing surveys carried out between depths
of 46 and 1713 m in two different areas off the Balearic Islands yielded a total of 23 …

This study examined the diversity and relative abundance of fish species in six coastal
habitats during the day and at night. Habitats included seagrass beds, Ecklonia macroalgal …