MEDLEM database, a data collection on large Elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean and Black seas

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Published: Jul 1, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.21148
Keywords:
sharks by-catch databases large elasmobranchs geographical distribution Mediterranean and Black seas
CECILIA MANCUSI
Environmental Protection Agency (ARPAT)
ROMANO BAINO
Environmental Protection Agency (ARPAT)
CATERINA FORTUNA
Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)
LUIS GIL DE SOLA
IEO
GABRIEL MOREY
Balearic Islands Government
MOHAMED NEJMEDDINE BRADAI
INSTM
ARGYRIOS KALLIANOTIS
N.AG.RE.F
ALEN SOLDO
University of Split
FARID HEMIDA
USTHB
ADIB ALI SAAD
Tishreen University
MARK DIMECH
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
PANAGIOTA PERISTERAKI
Hellenic Center for Marine Research
MICHEL BARICHE
American University of Beirut
SIMONA CLÒ
Medsharks
ELEONORA DE SABATA
Medsharks
LAURA CASTELLANO
Aquarium of Genoa
FULVIO GARIBALDI
University of Genoa
LUCA LANTERI
University of Genoa
FAUSTO TINTI
University of Bologna
ANTONIO PAIS
University of Sassari
EMILIO SPERONE
University of Calabria
PRIMO MICARELLI
Aquarium of Massa Marittima
FRANCOIS POISSON
MARBEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD
LETIZIA SION
University of Bari
ROBERTO CARLUCCI
University of Bari
DANIEL CEBRIAN-MENCHERO
RAC-SPA
BERNARD SÉRET
Ichtyo Consult
FRANCESCO FERRETTI
Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University
ALAA EL-FAR
National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF)
ISMET SAYGU
ESMAIL A. SHAKMAN
University of Tripoli
ALEX BARTOLI
SUBMON – Marine Environmental Services
JAVIER GUALLART
University of Valencia
DIMITRIOS DAMALAS
Hellenic Center for Marine Research
PERSEFONI MEGALOFONOU
University of Athens
MARINO VACCHI
ISMAR (Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council
MASSIMILIANO BOTTARO
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
GIUSEPPE NOTARBARTOLO DI SCIARA
Tethys Research Institute
MARIA CRISTINA FOLLESA
University of Cagliari
RITA CANNAS
University of Cagliari
HAKAN KABASAKAL
Ichthyological Research Society
BRUNO ZAVA
Wilderness Environmental Studies
GRAZIELLA CAVLAN
Nature Trust
ARMELLE JUNG
Des Requins et Des Hommes
MOHAMMED ABUDAYA
National Research Centre (Gaza-Palestine)
JERINA KOLITARI
University of Tirana
ADI BARASH
University of Haifa
ALEKSANDAR JOKSIMOVIC
University of Montenegro
BOJAN MARČETA
Fisheries Research Institute
LUIS GONZALEZ VILAS
University of Vigo
FRANCESCO TIRALONGO
University of Catania
IOANNIS GIOVOS
iSea & Marine and Environmental Research (MER)
FILIPPO BARGNESI
Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona & Cattolica aquarium, Cattolica, RN, Italy,
STEFANO LELLI
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, EastMed Project
MONICA BARONE
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation, Fisheries Resources Consultant
STEFANO MORO
Sapienza University of Rome
CARLOTTA MAZZOLDI
University of Padova
CHARILAOU CHARIS
DFMR - Department of Fisheries and Marine Research
ALVARO JUAN ABELLA
Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnologies (IRBIM), National Research Council – (CNR)
FABRIZIO SERENA
Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnologies (IRBIM), National Research Council – (CNR)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1428-8124
Abstract

The Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring (MEDLEM) database contains over 3000 records (more than 4000 individuals) of large elasmobranch species from 20 different countries around the Mediterranean and Black seas, observed from 1666 to 2017. The main species included in the archive are the devil fish (1 813 individuals), the basking shark (939 individuals), the blue shark (585 individuals) and the great white shark (337 individuals).

In the last decades other species such as the shortfin mako (166 individuals), the spiny butterfly ray (138) and the thresher shark (174 individuals) were reported with an increasing frequency. This was possibly due to an increased public awareness on the conservation status of sharks, and a consequent development of new monitoring programmes. MEDLEM does not have a homogeneous reporting coverage throughout the Mediterranean and Black seas and it should be considered as a database of observed species presence. Scientific monitoring efforts in the south-eastern Mediterranean and Black seas are generally lower than in the northern sectors and the absence in our database of some species does not imply their actual absence in these regions. Some considerations are made on the frequency and spatial distribution of records, size structure of the observed individuals for selected species, general area coverage and species involved as by-catch by fishing gear.

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  • MANCUSI, C., BAINO, R., FORTUNA, C., DE SOLA, L. G., MOREY, G., BRADAI, M. N., KALLIANOTIS, A., SOLDO, A., HEMIDA, F., SAAD, A. A., DIMECH, M., PERISTERAKI, P., BARICHE, M., CLÒ, S., DE SABATA, E., CASTELLANO, L., GARIBALDI, F., LANTERI, L., TINTI, F., PAIS, A., SPERONE, E., MICARELLI, P., POISSON, F., SION, L., CARLUCCI, R., CEBRIAN-MENCHERO, D., SÉRET, B., FERRETTI, F., EL-FAR, A., SAYGU, I., SHAKMAN, E. A., BARTOLI, A., GUALLART, J., DAMALAS, D., MEGALOFONOU, P., VACCHI, M., BOTTARO, M., NOTARBARTOLO DI SCIARA, G., FOLLESA, M. C., CANNAS, R., KABASAKAL, H., ZAVA, B., CAVLAN, G., JUNG, A., ABUDAYA, M., KOLITARI, J., BARASH, A., JOKSIMOVIC, A., MARČETA, B., GONZALEZ VILAS, L., TIRALONGO, F., GIOVOS, I., BARGNESI, F., LELLI, S., BARONE, M., MORO, S., MAZZOLDI, C., CHARIS, C., ABELLA, A. J., & SERENA, F. (2020). MEDLEM database, a data collection on large Elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean and Black seas. Mediterranean Marine Science, 21(2), 276–288. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.21148
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