He has worked at CNR in Ancona since the late 1980s, initially as a student, holding a series of fixed-term contracts until October 2001, when he passed a public competition for a permanent position as CTER (Technical Collaborator, Research Institutions). He was responsible for developing a system to monitor commercial catches of several fish species and to collect the associated environmental parameters (FOS and FOOS), based on the use of commercial fishing vessels operating in the Adriatic Sea. He served as technical manager of the UnderWater TV (UWTV) equipment used to assess Nephrops norvegicus populations in the Central Adriatic. For many years he took part in the collection and processing of biological samples and in age determination of fish species within the national fisheries data collection programme (implementation of European Union Data Collection Regulation No. 1543/2000).
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Alessandra Spagnolo
Assessing environmental factors affecting the growth and quality of farmed and wild mussel populations along the Italian Adriatic coast