Fabio Fiorentino

TL;DR: Ecosystem based marine spatial management (EB-MSM) is an approach that recognizes the full array of interactions within an ecosystem, including human uses, rather than considering single issues, species, or ecosystem services in isolation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that under the current fishing regime, stock productivity and fleet profitability are generally impaired by a combination of high fishing mortality and inadequate selectivity patterns, and that a simple reduction in the current mortality towards an MSY reference value, without any change in the fishing selectivity, will allow neither stock biomass nor fisheries yield and revenue to be maximized.

TL;DR: Outlier loci separated North Sea and Northern Portugal populations from all other Atlantic samples and revealed a strong differentiation among Western, Central and Eastern Mediterranean geographical samples, supporting the hypothesis that populations might be adapted to local conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, 381 SNPs located in transcribed regions were used to assess large and fine-scale population structure in the European hake (Merluccius merluccii), a widely distributed demersal species of high priority for the European fishery.

TL;DR: A framework for the monitoring and evaluation of spatially managed areas (SMAs), which is currently being tested by nine European case studies, provides guidance on the selection, mapping, and assessment of ecosystem components and human pressures, the evaluation of management effectiveness and potential adaptations to management.