Acta Adriatica, Vol. 64 No. 2, 2023.
Short communication, Note
https://doi.org/10.32582/aa.64.2.6
Attempts to locate and sample the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Lamniformes: Lamnidae), along the Italian coasts in the Mediterranean Sea
Primo Micarelli
; Sharks Studies Center – Scientific Institute, Italy
*
Francesca Romana Reinero
; Sharks Studies Center – Scientific Institute, Italy
Andrea Marsella
; Sharks Studies Center – Scientific Institute, Italy
Enrico Vernelli
; Sharks Studies Center – Scientific Institute, Italy
Enrico Vittorini
; Sharks Studies Center – Scientific Institute, Italy
Luca Monteleone
; Sharks Studies Center – Scientific Institute, Italy
Matteo Vailati
; Sharks Studies Center – Scientific Institute, Italy
Letizia Marsili
; DSFTA, Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment, University of Siena, Italy
Fausto Tinti
; BiGeA, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
Emilio Sperone
; DiBEST, Department of Biology, Ecology, and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Italy
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
Described in the present report are documented attempts to tag and sample the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758), along Italian coasts in the Mediterranean Sea, which took place near the Lampedusa Island in the lower Tyrrhenian Channel of Sicily, off the coast of Rimini in the Adriatic Sea, and of Civitavecchia in the central Tyrrhenian Sea. The project, activated in 2015, was aimed at tagging and sampling specimens of the white shark in order to collect data useful to implement conservation strategies in the Mediterranean Sea. Despite four tagging attempts made in 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2022 with 288 total hours of baiting activity and the use of 1030 kg of chum, no white sharks or any other shark species were sighted.
Keywords
Carcharodon carcharias; tagging; Mediterranean Sea; Italian coast; conservation
Hrčak ID:
308927
URI
Publication date:
18.10.2023.
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