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Prediction of Benthic and Fish Colonization on the Fregene and other Mediterranean Artificial Reefs

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Artificial Reefs in European Seas

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In order to improve fishery yield, a general assumption of artificial reef research is that when reefs are placed on soft, sedimentary seabeds the new, available hard substrata tends to attract fish from neighbouring areas and/or to increase the area colonized by epifaunal species (Seaman and Sprague, 1991).

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Ardizzone, G., Somaschini, A., Belluscio, A. (2000). Prediction of Benthic and Fish Colonization on the Fregene and other Mediterranean Artificial Reefs. In: Jensen, A.C., Collins, K.J., Lockwood, A.P.M. (eds) Artificial Reefs in European Seas. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4215-1_7

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