Artificial Anti-trawling Reefs off Alicante, South- Eastern Iberian Peninsula: Evolution of Reef Block and Set Designs

Effects of anti‐trawling artificial reefs on fish assemblages: The case of Salerno Bay (Mediterranean Sea)

“…Raja asterias and Solea vulgaris, is in full accordance with the results reported by Duval-Mellon (1987). On the contrary, the specimen number increase for Mullus surmuletus detected in area B contradicts the results of Ramos Esplà et al (2000), who reported that this species is not sensitive to the presence of protective structures.…”

“…The effect of protective structures on Lithognatus mormyrus and Diplodus annularis is controversial: more specifically, Spanier (2000) reports the capability of attraction of AARs for juveniles L. mormyrus, while Bombace et al (1994) report that both species are attracted by the barriers, reacting more quickly than the others, both as juveniles and as adults; on the contrary, according to Ramos Esplà et al (2000), the presence of D. annularis is not influenced at all by AARs.…”

“…Although they may be diverse, all the AAR projects in the Mediterranean share several and common goals, as reported in the scheme by Ramos-Esplà et al (2000), developing themes previously proposed by Bohnsack and Sutherland (1985) also aiming at an effective protection of biodiversity. A detailed description of the AARs present in the Mediterranean has been provided by Jensen (2002).…”

Monitoring of the artificial reef fish assemblages of golfe juan marine protected area (France, North-Western Mediterranean)

“…Artificial reefs can be submerged for the purposes of (BRICKHILL et al, 2005): increasing fishing resources and mitigating environmental impacts (POLOVINA; SAKAI, 1989;REED et al, 2006); constituting protection for "nurseries" against illegal trawling (CHARBONNEL;FRANCOUR, 1994;GOMEZ-BUCKLEY;HAROUN, 1994;SANTAELLA;REVENGA, 1995;LÖK et al, 2002); enforcing "no fishing" legislation with anti-trawling reefs (FRANCOUR et al, 1991;RAMOS-ESPLA et al, 2000;MORENO, 2002); increasing biodiversity COLLINS, 1995); promoting the survival of some species , and promoting recreational activities, notably SCUBA diving and angling (BRANDEN et al, 1994). Japan was one of the first countries to use large-scale artificial reefs in order to restore fishery resources.…”

Priorities for fisheries in marine protected area design and management: Implications for artisanal-type fisheries as found in southern Europe

“…In several regions of south eastern Spain (Ramos-Esplá et al 2000) and Italy (Relini et al 2007), for example, artificial reefs have been deployed with the twin objective of preventing trawling and increasing habitat surface area for the accommodation of vulnerable fish species (Caddy, 2000;Jensen, 2002). At least for some trawl ban areas, these increases were also not found to be accompanied by altered trophic structures between the reserve and unprotected areas (Badalamenti et al, 2000(Badalamenti et al, , 2008.…”