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 RESEARCH PROJECTS
1987-90 Research programme financed by the Italian Merchant Marine Ministry: "Comparative researches on the most suitable environmental, biological and technological conditions for offshore submerged and suspended mussel and oyster farming".
1987-91 Research programme financed by the EC Commission (Reg. 4028/86): “Biological and fishing sampling in areas affected by the deployment of artificial reefs”.
1990-93 Research programme financed by the Italian Merchant Marine Ministry: “Researches on icthyoplankton and juvenile fishes at artificial reefs”.
1991-94

Research programme financed by the Italian Merchant Marine Ministry: “Studies and experiments on: a) artificial structures for settlement of Decapods (Homarus gammarus); b) farming cages for European lobster and gilthead sea bream; c) FADs to attract and aggregate pelagic fish”.

1991-94

Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research: “Venetian lagoon system: planning of artificial reef and mariculture systems”.

1993-96

Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry for Agricultural, Food and  Forestry Resources: “Testing of suitable structures for offshore fish farming in the central Adriatic Sea ”.

1994-97

Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry for Agricultural, Food and  Forestry Resources: “Assessment of fish biomass at artificial reefs”.

1995-97

Research programme financed by the EC Commission (Study Project EC 94/086): “Trammel and Gill Net Selectivity in the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian sea ”.

1996-98 Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry for Agricultural, Food and  Forestry Resources: “Evaluation of artificial structure efficacy in the Italian seas: socio-economic aspects of fishing around artificial reefs and offshore gas platforms”.
1996-99 Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry for Agricultural, Food and  Forestry Resources: “Evaluation of artificial structure efficacy in the Italian seas: study on functioning of the artificial reef system through food webs”.
1996-99

Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry for Agricultural, Food and  Forestry Resources: “Study on the settlement and growth of the bivalve Pholas dactylus (Pholadidae) on artificial coal-ash substrates in open sea”.

1998

Research programme financed by the Special Agency for Fishery and Aquaculture, Ancona Chamber of Commerce: !Study on integrated management, protection and valorisation of the Marche coastal area”.

1998-01 Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry for the Agricultural Politics: “Gears used by small-scale fisheries on the basis of the seasonal occurrence and eco-ethology of different fish species in two coastal areas (northern Tyrrhenian sea and central Adriatic sea )”.
1999-00 Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry of Environment: “Preparatory feasibility study for the establishment of the marine protected area Costa del Monte Conero”.
1999-01

Research programme financed by the EC Commission (Study Project EC 98/069): “Sepia officinalis: impact of three set gear fishing techniques in the Adriatic and the Ligurian sea”.

2000-05

Research programme financed by the Marche Regional Authority (EC Reg. 2080/93 Project 20/BA/98): “Evaluation of the effects induced on benthic and fish communities by the deployment of an artificial reef in the coastal area between P.to Recanati and P.to Potenza Picena”.

2001-02 Research programme financed by the Port of Ancona Authority : “Mapping of seabed and docks of Ancona harbour”.
2002

Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry for the Agriculture and Forestry Politics: “Evaluation of the effects induced by the presence of mucilaginous substances on small-scale fisheries of the northern and central Adriatic sea and on offshore mussel culture off P.to Garibaldi”.

2002-05

Research programme financed by the Marche Regional Authority: “Characterization of benthic communities and environmental biological indicators in the coastal  area between Esino river, Conero Promontory and Musone river”.

2002-05 Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry for the Agriculture and Forestry Politics: “Restocking of juvenile sea bass at an artificial reef in the central Adriatic sea ”.
2002-07 Research programme financed by the Marche Regional Authority (EC Reg. 2792/99): “Evaluation of the effects induced on benthic and fish communities by the deployment of an artificial reef in the coastal area between Casteldimezzo and M.te Castellaro”.
2003

Research programme financed by the Port of Ancona Authority : “Mapping the seabed of Ancona harbour adjacent to the minor ship yards”.

2003-04 Research programme financed by the Marche Regional Authority  (EC Reg. 2792/1999): “Study on the selectivity of traps used for fishing changeable nassa (Nassarius mutabilis)”.
2004-05

Research programme financed by the Marche Regional Authority   (EC Reg. 2792/1999): “Study on the selectivity of sole gill nets in the northern Adriatic sea ”.

2005 Research programme financed by the Port of Ancona Authority : “Physical, chemical and bacteriological characterization of the marine sediments in front of the North Dock, Ancona harbour”.
2005-07 Research programme financed by the Port of Ancona Authority : “Ancona harbour: phyisical, chimical and batteriological charcaterization of the seabed; mapping of the seafloor and dock profile”.
2005-09

Research programme financed by the Marche Regional Authority  (EC Reg. 2792/99): “Evaluation of the effects induced on benthic and fish communities by the deployment of an artificial reef in the coastal area between Pedaso – Cupra Marittima”.

2006-08

Research programme financed by Apulia Regional Authority (project n. 1943/P): “Experimental project aimed to transfer the technologies for the culture of common piddock (Pholas dactylus) to the fishermen and marine farmers of the Puglia region”.

2006-08 Research programme financed by Marche Regional Authority (DocUP SFOP 2000/2006): "Experimenting  new substrates for the farming of common piddock Pholas dactylus”.
2006-09

Research programme financed by the Italian Ministry for the Agriculture and Forestry Politics: “Culture of common piddock Pholas dactylus, on artificial substrates: final experimental phase”.

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