Mediterranean Angel Sharks: SubRegional Action Plan in Aegean Sea and Crete

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The pictured shark is an angel shark. Angel sharks are flat-bodied bottom-dwelling sharks and their family is considered to be one the most endangered in the world. In the Mediterranean Sea, 3 species of angel sharks exist the Sawback Angelshark, the Smooth back Angelshark, and the Angelshark their Mediterranean population has been classified as Critically Endangered by the IUCN, due to the severe decline in their population as well as to localised extinctions. In Greece, all the 3 Mediterranean species are extant. Read more

The presence of Tripletail in Greece and Cyprus

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In the context of our project Is it Alien to you? Share it!!! in addition to recordings of alien species, we further collect observations of rare Mediterranean species, sent to us by citizen scientists.

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New case of illegal shark fishing in Greece

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Another case of illegal fishing of a protected species of elasmobranch has come to our attention after a friend of iSea posted an article of viannitika.gr news site in the group Is it Alien to You? Share it!!!. The article (now removed from the website) included photos of a professional fisher from Crete exhibiting a captured and landed individual of Isurus oxyrinchus (SMA), Shortfin Mako with the title  “A scary but … delicious capture”. Read more

Letter of complaint by iSea for the displaying of a protected Blackchin guitarfish

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Recently, an incident of illegal fishing of a protected Blackchin guitarfish individual from Chios sent to us by a supporter of iSea. The legal department of the organisation, after contacting the relevant port authority, sent the following letter with a view to triggering all necessary actions that would clarify the case.

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Another scientific publication in the context of the project Is it Alien to You?…Share it!!!

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Many times in the context of Is it Alien to You?…Share it!!! citizen scientists send us their observations of species that are not alien but rare. Yesterday we published a paper that contributes 25 new records of five data-limited species in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. More specifically the species are:

  • Alectis alexandrina
  • Ranzania laevis
  • Dalatias licha
  • Lophotus lacepede
  • Sudis hyalina

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MARINE ECOMED #3 Project Meeting

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In the context of MARINE ECOMED Project, the 3rd meeting was conducted on 27 January in IUAV. Read more

New alien species with Atlantic origins recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean

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New alien species, native to the western Atlantic, captured by a professional fisherman in Isthmia, Argosaronic Gulf. A friend of the fisher contacted the Is it Alien to you…. Share it!!! team. The individual identified as Chaetodipterus faber (Atlantic spadefish) and the specimen sent to iSea for further study. Today the scientific publication published, which confirms the first record of the species in the Mediterranean and thus in the Greek waters. Read more