Integrated Programme of Biological and Environmental Monitoring of Spawning and Nursery Grounds of the Main Fisheries Resources, Aimed at Improving Adriatic Fisheries Management
The “NURSERY” program is aimed at constituting and carrying out, on a scientific basis, a multidisciplinary integrated strategy for the
monitoring of the environment as well as of the fisheries resources. Thus, all variables contributing to the “ecosystem equation” will be taken into consideration: from fishing “parameters” (catches and landings by species, fishing fleets, fishing effort including historical data held by the research laboratories of all Adriatic countries), to biological “parameters” (e.g. structure of fish populations, growth of the various fish species), to environmental “parameters” (temperature, salinity, nutrients)