Unit of Marine Biology and Fisheries
Lab of Marine Biology and Fisheries Lab
tel. ++39 (0)721 802689
fax +a +39 (0)721 801654
Group Leader: Prof. Corrado Piccinetti
E-mail : corrado.piccinetti@unibo.it
Research in progress :
- The Marine Biology and Fisheries Lab is active since 1939 with research programmes on fisheries and marine organisms, and on the ecosystems of the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas. The main research lines are
- Assessment of the recruitment indicators for Mediterranean bluefin tuna and swordfish.
- Assessment of demersal fishery resources in the Adriatic Sea carried out with scientific trawl surveys aimed at estimating abundance indices, recruitment, and biological features of resource species.
- Stock assessment of clams in the Adriatic Sea (from Venice to Senigallia) and scientific support to the sustainable management of populations.
- Identification of population units of swordfish in the Mediterranean by genetic stock structure analysis of juveniles.
- Analysis of fisheries and exploited species in the protected marine area of Capo Rizzuto.
- Analysis of the trophic relationships of demersal fishery resources of the Adriatic Sea as an ecosystemic scientific approach to the sustainable management of fisheries.
- Analysis of stock distribution and abundance of small pelagic fish in the northern-central Adriatic Sea as a scientific parameter of the sustainable management of fisheries.
- Monitoring of environmental and fishery resources in protected marine areas created with in-shore artificial structures along the coasts of the Province of Salerno (Research Project PEGASO).
Funding :
MIPAF and EU "Valutazione Risorse Demersali"
MIPAF and EU "Valutazione Risorse Demersali, programma MEDITS"
MIPAF "Valutazione Molluschi Bivalvi"
EU "Analisi forme giovanili di pesce spada"
MIPAF and EU "Campionamento biologico"
Consorzio Area Marina Protetta "Progetto Area marina protetta Capo Rizzuto"
MIPAF "Struttura trofica di popolazioni demersali"
MIPAF "Distribuzione ed abbondanza di piccoli pelagici"
Provincia di Salerno "Progetto PEGASO: Creazione di aree marine protette con strutture deterrenti antistrascico nello specchio acqueo antistante la Provincia di Salerno."
MIPAF "Reclutamento del tonno e pesce spada"
Patents :
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Selected Publications :
- Goffredo S., Piccinetti C., Zaccanti F. (2004) Volunteers in Marine Conservation Monitoring: a Study of the Distribution of Seahorses Carried Out in Collaboration with Recreational Scuba Divers. Conservation Biology 18:1492-1503.
- Flavio Garoia, Ilaria Guarniero, Corrado Piccinetti, Fausto Tinti. (2004) First Microsatellite Loci of Red Mullet (Mullus barbatus) and Their Application to Genetic Structure Analysis of Adriatic Shared Stock Marine Biotechnology, DOI 10.1007/s10126-004-3045-x.
- Garoia F., Guarniero I., Ramsak A., Ungaro N., Landi M., Piccinetti C., Mannini P., Tinti F. (2004) Microsatellite DNA variation reveals high levels of gene flow and transboundary populations in the Adriatic shared stocks of the European squid and cuttlefish (Cephalopoda). Heredity, 93: 166-174.
- Simunovic A., Piccinetti C., Beg Paklar G., Despalatovic M., Grubeli I., Antolic B., Zuljevic A. (2003) The occurrence of hypoxia in the Northern Adriatic at the end of 1994. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 12 (7) : 740-745.
- Orsi Relini L., Papaconstantinou C., Jukic-Peladic S., Couplet A., Gil De Sola L., Piccinetti C., Kavadas S., Rossi M. (2002) Distribution of the Mediterranean hake populations (Merluccius merluccius smiridus Rafinesque, 1810) (Osteichthyes: Gadiformes) based on six years monitoring by trawl-surveys: some implications for management. Sci. Mar., 66 (Suppl. 2): 21-38.
- Jukic Peladic S., Vrgoc N., Krstulovic Sifner S., Piccinetti C., Piccinetti Manfrin G., Marano G., Ungaro N. (2001) Long-term changes in demersal resources of the Adriatic Sea. Comparision between trawl surveys carried out in 1948 and 1998. Fish. Res., 53: 95-104.
- Simunovic A., Piccinetti C., Bartulovic M., Grubelic I. (2000) Distribution and abundance of the species Holothuria tubulosa Gmelin, 1788 and Holothuria forskali Delle Chiaje, 1823 (Holothuria, Echinodermata) in the Adriatic Sea. Acta Adriatica, 41 (2): 3-16.
- Tinti F., Piccinetti C. (2000) Molecular systematics of the Atlanto-Mediterranean Solea species. Journal of Fish Biology, 56: 604-614.
- Jukic S., Vrgoc N., Dadic V., Krstulovic-Sifner S., Piccinetti C., Marceta B.-(1999) Spatial and temporal distributions of some demersal fish populations in the Adriatic Sea descibed by GIS technique. Acta Adriatica, 40 (suppl.): 55-66.
- Cespuglio G., Piccinetti C., Longinelli A.(1999) Oxygen and carbon isotope profiles from Nassa mutabilis shells (Gastropoda): accretion rates and biological behaviour. Marine Biology, 135: 627-634
Postgraduate training :
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Collaborations :
Internazionale : International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas – ICCAT - Madrid (ES)
Internazionale : FAO, Roma (IT)
Internazionale : National Centre for Marine Research, Athens (GR)
Internazionale : IFREMER, Sète (FR)
Internazionale : Istituto Español de Oceanografia, Centro Oceanografico de Baleares. – Palma de Mallorca - (ES)
Internazionale : Istituto Español de Oceanografia, Centro Oceanografico de Malaga – Malaga – (ES
Internazionale : Zavod za Ribistvo Slovenije, Ljubljana (SI)
Internazionale : Institute of Marine Biology, Kotor (Serbia Montenegro)
Internazionale : Fisheries Research Institute, Durres (AL)
Internazionale : Institut za Oceanografjiu i Ribarstvo – I.O.R. – Split (HR)
Internazionale : Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Crete (GR) (Research Unit Dr Magoulas)
Nazionale : Laboratorio di Biologia Marina di Bari (Provincia di Bari)
Nazionale : Università di Cagliari, Dip.to Biologia Animale ed Ecologia
Nazionale : Università di Genova , Dip.to Ter. Ris.
Nazionale : Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Dip.to Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo
Nazionale : Università di Teramo, Facoltà di Veterinaria
Nazionale : Società Italiana di Biologia Marina , ONLUS – SIBM – Livorno
Nazionale : Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare – Co.N.I.S.Ma. – Roma
Nazionale : Istituto di ricerche sulle Risorse Marine e l’Ambiente - CNR – Ancona e Mazara del Vallo
Nazionale : Laboratorio di Genetica Molecolare per le Risorse Ambientali e da Pesca (GenMAP), Centro Interdipartimentale Ricerche Scienze Ambientali, Ravenna, Università di Bologna
Nazionale : Istituto di ricerche sulle Risorse Marine e l’Ambiente - CNR – Ancona e Mazara del Vallo (TP)
Nazionale : Centro Interuniversitario di Biologia Marina – CIBM – Livorno
Links :
Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Dip.to Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo
http://dipbau.bio.uniroma1.it/web/index.htm
Università di Teramo, Facoltà di Veterinaria
http://www.unite.it/Facolta/)
Società Italiana di Biologia Marina
http://www.sibm.unige.it
Centro Interuniversitario di Biologia Marina
http://www.cibm.it
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare
http://www.conisma.it
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
http://www.hcmr.gr
National Centre for Marine Research
http://www.ncmr.gr
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
http://www.iccat.es
IFREMER
http://www.ifremer.fr
Istituto Español de Oceanografia, Centro Oceanografico de Baleares
http://www.ba.ieo.es
Istituto Español de Oceanografia, Centro Oceanografico de Malaga
http://www.ieo.es
Institut za Oceanografjiu i Ribarstvo
http://www.izor.hr
Zavod za Ribistvo Slovenije
http://www.mszs.si
Institute of Marine Biology, Kotor
http://www.biokotor.org
Fisheries Research Institute
http://www.dfishery.gov.al/FRI.htm
Laboratorio di Biologia Marina di Bari
http://www.teseo.it/biologia.marina
Università di Teramo, Facoltà di Veterinaria
http://www.unite.it/Facolta/
Università di Cagliari, Dip.to Biologia Animale ed Ecologia
http://www.unica.it/~animabiol/
Research group :
Corrado Piccinetti (Associate Professor, Lab Director)
Gabriella Manfrin (Lab Coordinator)
Fausto Tinti (Research Associate)
Giovanni Mattioli (Technician)
Chiara Manfredi (Postdoc )
Elisa Ciavaglia (Postdoc)
Raffaele Di Placido (Fellow student)
