Alboran Sea - Ecosystems and Marine Resources

lt;b>José Carlos Báez has a PhD in biology from the University of Málaga (Spain). From 2017 onwards he has an official research position at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, and is a research affiliate at the University Autónoma de Chile (Chile). His research is focused on the ecology and conservation of marine megafauna such as sharks, marine mammals and sea turtles, and tuna fisheries management. He actively participates in monitoring the tuna fisheries operated by the Spanish fleet. He has published more than 122 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, of which 63 are scientific journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports by Clarivate Analytics. A lot of these published studies, are based in the Alboran Sea and its marine ecology. He has been a scientific advisor in reports requested by FAO and the European Union, including the Alboran fisheries and its impact on marine megafauna and the tuna fisheries. Currently, he is member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN-SSC) Marine Turtle Specialist Group, and also he is a member of the board of directors of the Spanish Herpetological Association (AHE), from where he collaborates and advises various national administrations on the conservation of sea turtles. In addition, he is an active member of different working groups of the Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs), such as ICCAT and IOTC. He participated as scientific advisor for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Natural History Unit, during the filming and production of the film "SHARKS".
Juan A. Camiñas, PhD in Biology by the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) is a retired scientist from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO). After more than 30 years at IEO, he became a FAO officer in February 2008 working at the Organisation until March 2015. During that period he was the Coordinator of two FAO Projects, CopeMed II (Co-ordination to Support Fisheries Management in the Western and Central Mediterranean - CopeMed Phase II), and ArtFiMed (Sustainable development of the artisanal fisheries in Morocco and Tunisia) aiming on fisheries sustainability in the central and western Mediterranean region. Director of the FAO CopeMed II headquarters in Malaga from 2008 he was member of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the FAO.Director of the IEO Malaga Marine laboratory from July 1989 until 2008, he has been working as scientific advisor of the Spanish and the European Commission administrations on fisheries and fish biology issues; his main expertise is the Mediterranean artisanal fisheries and the interactions of fishing gears with marine turtles and other species. As Spanish representative in the General Fisheries Commissions for the Mediterranean (GFCM) from the early eighties of the XX century, he was an animator for the transformation of the GFCM and elected the first Chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) from 1994 to 2004. He was also a Spanish representative and member of the European Commission STECF (Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee of Fisheries).Currently he is member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Sciences of Malaga and the Chairperson of the Spanish Herpetological Association AHE, both from 2016. He has been coordinating and participating in international marine research projects with the EU, working as consultant with IUCN and to FAO in northern Africa and as marine turtle's expert. He was one of the first Spanish members of the Species Survival Commission-IUCN Marine Turtles Specialists Group, Mediterranean Region; is a member and co-founder of the Spanish Network of Marine Turtle Experts in 2018, and he is currently participating in different projects aiming to improve the marine turtles knowledge and international management in collaboration with national and international organisations as ACCOBAMS, AHE, GFCM, RAC-SPA,

Chapter 1: Introduction.-  Chapter 2: Regional context and maritime governance.- Chapter 3: Alboran Sea area climate and weather.- Chapter 4: The Oceanographic and climatic context.- Chapter 5: A Geological history for the Alboran Sea region.- Chapter 6: Seafloor morphology and processes in the Alboran Sea.- Chapter 7: The biogeochemical context of marine planktonic ecosystems.- Chapter 8: Seaweeds and seagrasses: the marine forests from the Alboran Sea.- Chapter 9: Benthic fauna of littoral and deep-sea habitats of the Alboran Sea: A hotspot of biodiversity.- Chapter 10: Invertebrates: the realm of diversity.- Chapter 11: Biogeographical and Macroecological context of the Alboran Sea.- Chapter 12: Biophysical processes determining the connectivity of the Alboran Sea fish populations.- Chapter 13: Evolving from fry fisheries to early life research on pelagic fish resources.- Chapter 14: Description of artisanal fisheries innorthern Alboran Sea.- Chapter 15: Description of artisanal fisheries in southern Alboran Sea.- Chapter 16: Small pelagic resources: A historic perspective and current state of the resources.- Chapter 17: North Atlantic Oscillation effect on the biology and fisheries of tunas species in the Alboran Sea.- Chapter 18: Demersal Resources.- Chapter 19: The Blackspot seabream fishery in the Strait of Gibraltar: lessons and future perspectives of shared marine resource.- Chapter 20: Aquaculture in the Alboran Sea.- Chapter 21: Marine megafauna and charismatic vertebrate species.- Chapter 22: Fisheries economics and management under the impact of Human and varying marine environmental conditions in the Alboran Sea.- Chapter 23: A historical approach to living resources on the Spanish coasts from Alboran Sea between the 16th and 20th centuries.- Chapter 24: Sustainable development and Blue growth in the Alboran Sea: enabling ocean health and ecosystem services through ocean science and equitable governance.- Chapter 25: Marine Protected Areas and Key Biodiversity Areas of the Alboran Sea and adjacent areas.