Draft Final report 11/01/2000

The Medits programme is conducted owing to the financial support from the European Commission (DG XIV) and the following partners, the IEO for Spain, the IFREMER and the Territorial Collectivity of Corsica for France, the Italian Minister of forest, agricultural and food resources (DG fisheries and aquaculture) for Italy as well as Slovenian, Croatian and Albanian areas, the N CMR for Greece.

In 1998 and 1999, the Medits project was plainly managed according to the bottom trawl surveys organized each year during the spring period. As the Medits co-ordination committee watched over to encourage the spreading of results as fast as possible, the activity of the group was strongly planned on a yearly base, including a yearly analysis of the results, survey by survey. This report goes back to this organisation, with a couple of documents for each year (technical and biological reports). At the beginning of each yearly technical report, a general presentation highlights the outstanding actions executed during the year. It is foreseen that this presentation will facilitate the following of the tasks carried out during the two years of the project. 

This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission and in no way anticipates any future opinion of the Commission. Permission to copy, or reproduce the contents of this report is granted subject to citation of the source of this material. The study has been carried out with the financial assistance of the European Commission.

                                                  Synopsis

Volume 4

Medits '99 Biological report

Biological results  Medits '99

Per area

Global analysis

Tables

Table 1. Sampling scheme on the different strata            

Table 2. Codes and usual names of the reference species

Table 3. Biomass indices per species and area  

Figures

Fig. 1. Boundaries of the subareas  

Fig. 2. Length distribution of the reference species

Fig. 3. Biomass classes  

Fig. 4. Biomass indices (1994-1999)

Fig. 5. Sea temperature

Appendix

1               Distribution of juveniles of some demersal species in the Northern Mediterranean

2               Contribution on the distribution of elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean (from the Medits surveys)

3               Symposium on Assessment of demersal resources in the Mediterranean end the adjacent seas: abstract of the selected papers published in Aquatic Living ressources