RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Running research programs (April 2005):
· PR/255 – Shellfish culture: effects on the Venice lagoon, hygienic compatibility, environmental impact and management, funded by Ministry of Environment;
· PR/271 – Sustainability of new co-management fishery strategies by means of an ecosystemic approach, funded by Ministry of Environment;
· PR/288 – Structure, dynamic and functional characteristics of biological communities dominated by macrophytes and planktonic algaes in the Lagoon of Venice, funded within CO.RI.LA.;
· PR/290 – Characterization of pro-deltaic deposits of rivers flowing into the coastal area between Reno (Right canal) and Goro (Po). Role of organic matter microbic degradation processes on oxygen fluxes variations and nutrients at the interface water-sediment, funded by ARPA Emilia-Romagna;
· Realization of a monitoring integrated system on water quality in the Adriatic sea, particularly on eutrophic and mucilage phenomena, funded by ARPA Emilia-Romagna, INTERREG III;
· PR/295 – Sole (Solea vulgaris) stock assessment in Northern and Central Adriatic and incidence of different fishery activities: Northern area, funded by Ministry of Agriculture Policies, Fisheries General Direction;
· PR/300 – Evaluation of pollution state and nutritional quality of Manila clam in the Lagoon of Venice, funded by Ministry of Agriculture Policies, Fisheries General Direction;
· PR/301 – Evaluation of the effects of the No Take Zone (Z.T.B.) of Chioggia on demersal and benthic populations and restocking experiments of commercial species, funded by Ministry of Agriculture Policies, Fisheries General Direction;
· PR/304 – Developing indicators of Environmental Performance of the Common Fishery Policy (INDECO), Concerted Action within FP6, SSP3, Policies-1.3 (funded by UE);
· PR/305 – “MUTualisation on FISHeries and Aquaculture european Research institutes” (MUTFISHARE), Concerted Action funded by EU, see www.efaro.org
We are working on different research lines. Among them there is a group of research called the "Northern Adriatic Fishery Ecology Research Group", running in close collaboration with the Departement of Environmental Science of the University of Venice http://venus.unive.it/~swe/fishery.html
The following research projects have been carried out in Chioggia (final reports available):
· PR/40 - Studies on the Pectinidae farming and reproduction, funded by ICRAM;
· PR/54 - Investigation on the effects of bivalve fisheries in the Lagoon of Venice, funded by ICRAM;
· PR/59 - Experiments of clam culture activity in the Lagoon of Venice, funded by the Administration of the Province of Venice;
· PR/60 - The anchovy in the North-Western Mediterranean: biology, distribution and stock assessment with different methods, funded by the European Community;
· PR/61 - Pilot plan of alieutic conservation/management, XIV-1/MED/91/015C, funded by European Community;
· PR/62 -Project on Research and Experiments in the Adriatic Sea-"PRISMA", funded by M.U.R.S.T.;
· PR/75 - Analysis of condition of anchovy larvae, E. encrasicolus, for the identification and evaluation of processes determining the variability of recruitment ("A.L.I.C.E."), funded by the Ministry of Agriculture Policy, Fisheries General Direction;
· PR/104 - Phosphorus associated to the particulate in the frontal systems in the Adriatic Sea - PRISMA 2, funded by C.N.R;
· PR/DRAG-ON - "Impact caused by toothed dredges requantified on a panEuropean scale", Study funded by UE;
· PR/138 MAT – "Mucilage formation processes in the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian seas", funded by Ministry of Environment;
· PR/138 BENMAT – "Effects of mucilage aggregates on benthic communities", funded by Ministry of Environment;
· PR/150 – Study of the impact of Manila clam fishing in the Lagoon of Venice for management of the resource and of the environment, funded by Ministry of Agriculture Policies, Fisheries General Direction;
· PR/161 – "Optimisation of sampling methods and analysis", funded by ICRAM;
· PR/163 – "Organic carbon in the Northern Adriatic", funded by IBM-CNR of Venice, within Interreg II;
· PR/166 – "Investigation on different spatial-temporal scales on marine benthic communities modifications induced by the ‘rapido' fisheries", funded by Ministry of Agriculture Policy, Fisheries General Direction;
· PR/186 – "Fisheries impact on non-commercial catches for evaluation of the effects at an ecosystem level" (I.E.P.I.), funded by ICRAM;
· PR/194 – "Environmental restoration of the venetian lagoon system. Manila clam fishery: opportunity and environmental sustainability", funded by Ministry of Environment;
· PR/208 - "Characterisation of an off-shore area for extraction of sand for the nourishment of Emilia-Romagna beaches: demersal communities and effects on trawl fishery", funded by "Regione Emilia-Romagna";
· PR/217 - "Monitoring PoliChloroBiphenyls (PCB) in the southern Lagoon of Venice as quality indicators of biota", funded by ICRAM and Foundation for Fishery of Chioggia;
· "Study of the biodiversity for an equilibrium between conservation and exploitation in the Lagoon of Venice", coordinated by the Dep.ment of Environmental Science of the University of Venice, within CO.RI.LA. project;
· PR/250 – Monitoring tributiltin (TBT) in aquatic molluscs, funded by CIRSPE;
· Integrated management project of the “Biological Protected Area, Tegnùe of Chioggia”, funded by Veneto region and “Tegnùe Association” in Chioggia;
· PR/260 – Benthic mucilage in Adriatic: distribution and characterization, funded by Ministry of Environment;