Race for the last bluefin Capacity of the purse seine fleet ... - WWF
Race for the last bluefin Capacity of the purse seine fleet ... - WWF
Race for the last bluefin Capacity of the purse seine fleet ... - WWF
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Figure 019: Bathymetrical chart <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Mediterranean Sea, showing <strong>the</strong> continental shelf.<br />
Juvenile BFT (age 0) are mostly found in coastal areas over <strong>the</strong> continental shelf (see Figure 019),<br />
whenever a suitable trophic chain is present.<br />
Most <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> available in<strong>for</strong>mation reports a major presence along <strong>the</strong> coasts <strong>of</strong> Croatia, south<br />
Adriatic Sea, western Ionian Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, all <strong>the</strong> north-western Mediterranean coast, in<br />
some areas <strong>of</strong> Morocco and Tunisia, in a few Aegean areas and in <strong>the</strong> Levantine Sea, between<br />
Anamur and Mersin (see Figure 020).<br />
Figure 020: Major known areas where juvenile BFT (Thunnus thynnus) occurs inside <strong>the</strong> Mediterranean Sea.<br />
(Yellow) Source: EU Commission Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee <strong>for</strong> Fisheries (STECF) April<br />
3 rd to 7 th 2006 plenary session staff working paper (Opinion on sensitive and essential fish habitats in <strong>the</strong><br />
Mediterranean Sea)<br />
Remarkable shifting <strong>of</strong> areas where juveniles are concentrated has been noticed from year to year.<br />
Juveniles are mostly present in feeding aggregations or schools during fall, from September to<br />
December.<br />
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