Non-native species in the European Aquaculture
Aquaculture is a key component of the European fisheries sector, producing 20% of the annual fish production.
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Aquaculture is a key component of the European fisheries sector, producing 20% of the annual fish production.
Close to 7,000 different species are owned by pet owners across Europe, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish.
In few weeks, pests' populations will be on the rise, ravaging several plants. Among those, the invasive Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), a 1cm long insect, native to Japan, spotted for the first time in Europe in July 2014 close to the river Ticino, in Northern Italy.
RELIONMED is a four year project, funded by the EU LIFE instrument, aiming to set the basis for the mitigation of lionfish impacts through the development of an early warning and response system and the development of best practices for its control.
The latest version of the EASIN Catalogue, 7.0, contains the result of the revision of scientific information on Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibia, marine plankton, and terrestrial Platyhelminthes (flatworms) performed by the taxonomists Riccardo Scalera, Lyudmila Kamburska, and Jean-Lou Justine.
We warmly welcome to EASIN Team Ioannis Giovos, marine biologist with a background on conservation of Mediterranean endangered marine megafauna species.
All the scientific information contained in the EASIN Catalogue concerning species taxonomy, synonyms, common names, status (alien, cryptogenic, questionable), environment, impact and pathways of introduction in Europe can be downloaded through to the recently released EASIN RESTful Web Service.
EASIN Catalogue version 6.6 has been released. Information on alien freshwater fish, freshwater plants, Fungi and Oomycota occurring in Europe has been revised by taxonomy specialists and updated. This work has led to the addition of new species and changes to the status of others.
European policies decision making process is supported by scientific evidence to which citizens can contribute, under the concept of Citizen Science.
This is the title of a two-years Citizen Science Project promoted by the University of Palermo (Sicily), to collect data on 19 alien marine species, both plant and animals, along the coasts of Sicily and small Islands.
The EASIN Catalogue currently online, version 6.2, includes the updates concerning bacteria alien species occurring in Europe.
A second release of the Smart App "Invasive Alien Species Europe" is now available. The upgrade contains 11 additional alien species of Union concern, published by means of the Commission Implementing Regulation 1263/2017, bringing the total to 48 species.
A large-scale study on 34 Mediterranean marinas (Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus) revealed that Mediterranean marinas indeed act as major hubs for the transfer of marine alien species, indicating that recreational boats act as effective vectors of spread. Numerous new alien species records at the basin, subregional, country and locality level are also reported.
EASIN webpage devoted to Citizen Science initiatives on alien and invasive alien species in Europe has been updated and organized to provide information at European and Country level.
A special issue of "Journal of Aquatic Invasions" includes studies presented at three international meetings devoted to invasive species in inland water ecosystems held in 2016 in Europe and North America