The current macroeconomic scenario has subjected Portuguese coastal areas to greater human pressure caused by the ever-increasing shellfish harvest. Every year on Holy Friday, hundreds of people make their way to coastal areas and frantically capture hundreds of bags worth of mussels in a short amount of time. It causes not just inevitable and profound changes to the intertidal zone, but also slows down its recovery. In 2010 Cascais Municipality (CM) was made aware of this problem and in 2011 and 2012 released a general awareness campaign entitled “In Easter who pays is the mussel”. More than just providing a legal perspective, the goal was to test the impact of said campaign in Meixilhoeiro’s mussel beds. Biological data sampling in “Mexil...
The exploitation of bivalves is an ancient activity in Portugal, with social, economic and cultural ...
Comparing temporal patterns of distribution and abundance of target organisms between protected and ...
Mytilus galloprovincialis is an ecosystem engineer that provides habitat and generates environmental...
The current macroeconomic scenario has subjected Portuguese coastal areas to greater human pressure ...
The perception of the population that captures mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) and barnacles (Po...
The Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819, has traditionally been removed fr...
Human exploitation of intertidal organisms in South Africa is an ancient activity based principally ...
The United Kingdom's first large-scale, offshore, long-line mussel farm deployed its first ropes in ...
The open sea mussel culture in this particular case met with the impediment of unfortunate sabotage...
Eutrophication is one of the largest and most serious global threats to the marine environment. The ...
This study assessed the number of mussel fishers at an intertidal flat at the mouth of a tropical es...
Mussel aquaculture installations located in inshore waters have been shown to have a wide range of i...
Much of the mussel spat used to seed mussel aquaculture farms throughout New Zealand is sourced from...
Population growth in Cabo Delgado, the northern province of Mozambique, has pushed coastal communiti...
This article belongs to the Special Issue 2021 Feature Papers by Diversity’s Editorial Board Members...
The exploitation of bivalves is an ancient activity in Portugal, with social, economic and cultural ...
Comparing temporal patterns of distribution and abundance of target organisms between protected and ...
Mytilus galloprovincialis is an ecosystem engineer that provides habitat and generates environmental...
The current macroeconomic scenario has subjected Portuguese coastal areas to greater human pressure ...
The perception of the population that captures mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) and barnacles (Po...
The Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819, has traditionally been removed fr...
Human exploitation of intertidal organisms in South Africa is an ancient activity based principally ...
The United Kingdom's first large-scale, offshore, long-line mussel farm deployed its first ropes in ...
The open sea mussel culture in this particular case met with the impediment of unfortunate sabotage...
Eutrophication is one of the largest and most serious global threats to the marine environment. The ...
This study assessed the number of mussel fishers at an intertidal flat at the mouth of a tropical es...
Mussel aquaculture installations located in inshore waters have been shown to have a wide range of i...
Much of the mussel spat used to seed mussel aquaculture farms throughout New Zealand is sourced from...
Population growth in Cabo Delgado, the northern province of Mozambique, has pushed coastal communiti...
This article belongs to the Special Issue 2021 Feature Papers by Diversity’s Editorial Board Members...
The exploitation of bivalves is an ancient activity in Portugal, with social, economic and cultural ...
Comparing temporal patterns of distribution and abundance of target organisms between protected and ...
Mytilus galloprovincialis is an ecosystem engineer that provides habitat and generates environmental...