Jellyfish blooms perception in Mediterranean finfish aquaculture |
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| Institution: | 1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy;2. Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Rome, Italy;3. Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Livorno, Italy;4. Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Malta, Malta;5. Dipartimento Terra e Ambiente, CNR – IAMC Mazara del Vallo, Italy;6. Institut de Ciències del Mar, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain;7. National Agronomic Institute of Tunis, Research group of Oceanography and Plankton, Tunis, Tunisia;8. Institute of Earth Systems, University of Malta, Malta;9. Physical Oceanography Research Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Malta, Malta;1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Sociology and Political Science, Trondheim 7491, Norway;2. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Biology, Trondheim, Norway;3. Griffith University, QLD, Australia;4. SINTEF Fiskeri og Havbruk, Trondheim, Norway;1. Department of Ecology, University of Alicante, Ap. 99, E-03080, Alicante, Spain;2. Research Institute “Ramon Margalef”, University of Alicante, Ap. 99, E-03080, Alicante, Spain;3. Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC, Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta, 37-49, 08003, Barcelona, Spain;4. Clinical Toxicology Unit, Emergency Department, Hospital Clínic, Villaroel, 170, 08036, Barcelona, Spain;1. Division of Marine Science, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1020 Balch Blvd., Stennis Space Center, MS, USA;2. Biology Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 410 East Saint Mary Blvd, Lafayette, LA, USA;3. Laboratorio de Modelado Oceanográfico, Ecosistémico y del Cambio Climático (LMOECC), Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE), Av. Gamarra y Gral. Valle s/n, Callao, Peru;4. Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies, Hatfield Marine Center, Oregon State University, 2030 SE Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR, USA;5. Laboratorio Costero de Pisco, Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE), Av. Los Libertadores A-12, Urb. El Golf, Paracas, Ica, Peru;6. Division of Coastal Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, 703 E Beach Dr, Ocean Springs, MS, USA;7. NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Hatfield Marine Center, 2030 SE Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR, USA;8. Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, 4-4 Kagamiyama 1 Chome, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan;9. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 165 Prospect St., New Haven, CT, USA;10. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Paseo Victoria Ocampo N°1, Escollera Norte, Mar del Plata, Argentina |
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| Abstract: | In recent years, negative impacts of jellyfish blooms (JB) on marine human activities have been increasingly reported. Aquaculture has been affected by jellyfish outbreaks, mostly documented through repeated episodes of farmed salmon mortalities in Northern Europe; however, the valuation of JB consequences on the aquaculture sector still remains poorly quantified. This study aims to provide the first quantitative evaluation effects of JB on finfish aquaculture in the Mediterranean Sea and to investigate the general awareness of JB impacts among Mediterranean aquaculture professional workers. The aquaculture workers' perception about JB was assessed through a structured interview-based survey administered across 21 aquaculture facilities in central and western Mediterranean. The workers' awareness about JB impacts on aquaculture differed among countries. Italian and Spanish fish farmers were better informed about jellyfish proliferations and, together with Tunisian farmers, they all recognized the wide potential consequences of JB on sea bream and sea bass aquaculture. On the contrary, the majority of Maltese respondents considered JB as a non-significant threat to their activity, mostly based on off-shore tuna farming. This study for the first time shows that JB may negatively affect different Mediterranean aquaculture facilities from Tunisia (Sicily Channel) and Spain (Alboran Sea), by increasing farmed fish gill disorders and mortality, clogging net cages, or inflicting painful stings to field operators, with severe economic consequences. Available knowledge calls for the development of coordinated preventive plans, adaptation policies, and mitigation countermeasures across European countries in order to address the JB phenomenon and its impacts on coastal water activities. |
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| Keywords: | Gelatinous zooplankton Fish farmers' perception Aquaculture Central and western Mediterranean |
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