Acta Adriatica, Vol. 61 No. 1, 2020.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.32582/aa.61.1.7
A review of reproduction biology and spawning/ nursery grounds of the most important Adriatic commercial fish species in the last two decades
Barbara Zorica
orcid.org/0000-0002-9131-4675
; Institute of Oceanography and Fisheris, Split, Croatia
Vanja Čikeš Keč
; Institute of Oceanography and Fisheris, Split, Croatia
Nedo Vrgoč
; Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia
Igor Isajlović
; Institut za oceanografiju i ribarstvo, Split, Hrvatska
Corrado Piccinetti
; Laboratorio di biologia marina e pesca – Fano, Italy
Milica Mandić
; University of Montenegro - Institute of Marine Biology, Dobrota bb, P Box 69, 85330 Kotor, Montenegro
Bojan Marčeta
; Fisheries Research Institute of Slovenia, Spodnje Gameljne 61a, 1211 Ljubljana - Šmartno, Slovenia
Ana Pešić
; University of Montenegro - Institute of Marine Biology, Dobrota bb, P Box 69, 85330 Kotor, Montenegro
Abstract
Recently, despite long-term systematic research of the Adriatic Sea ecosystem, the necessity to improve the existing protection of commercially exploited species occurred since the status of many renewable marine stocks were not in good state. In order to realize that review of scientific knowledge gather within the last two decades was required. In this paper emphasis has been placed on all the scientific knowledge concerning the reproductive biology, spawning and nursery grounds of four ecologically and economically important Adriatic fish species – sardine Sardina pilchardus, anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus, European hake Merluccius merluccius, Common pandora, Pagellus erythrinus. Main aim of this review was to establish new scientific platform that in near future should result with better conservation measures that will insure long-term sustainability of exploited marine living resources.
Keywords
sardine; anchovy; hake; Common pandora; spawning; Adriatic Sea
Hrčak ID:
240323
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Publication date:
30.6.2020.
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