The Geographical Management Units of the Adriatic Sea. Paper presented at the GFCM-SAC Working Group on Management Units. (Copemed-Alicante, 23rd-25th January 2001)
The paper provided considerations on the Geographical Management Units (MUs). Some Adriatic demersal species whose stocks should be regarded as shared for management purposes were chosen in order to describe spatial distribution in the Adriatic Sea and as an example of the application of the MUs. Therefore the paper proposed to introduce minor modifications on the boundaries of the MUs proposed by the GFCM for the Adriatic Sea. An overview on some research programmes to be implemented through the AdriaMed Project relevant to the definition of MUs is given.