Scientific news

The document contains an analysis of the status of the species of greatest commercial interest on the Catalan coast that aims to promote co-management measures intended to improve fisheries governance in Catalonia.

A group of researchers from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) of Barcelona has turned a small sailboat, a pleasure boat closely linked to the Catalan territory, into a vessel for oceanographic research aimed at monitoring the coastal waters of Barcelona.

This summer a group of researchers will turn the fibre-optic cabling installed on the seabed of the Canary Islands into a seismic network to detect earthquakes using the DAS technology, which allows converting a fibre-optic cable into a dense seismic network.

An international report out this month in which have participated ICM researchers shows that the benefits of protecting 30% of the planet’s land and ocean outweigh the costs by a ratio of at least 5-to-1.

The citizen science initiative ‘Return to the Sea’ seeks to collect the maximum number of observations of marine biodiversity on the Catalan coastline in July, August and September. 

A group of researchers from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) of Barcelona, the Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), the Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO) and the University of Queensland (Australia) has shown that the current network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in Spanish Mediterranean waters does not protect properly sharks and rays.