International contributors in engineering, fisheries, marine biology, and environmental planning report on engineering and marine resource management in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. Contributors offer perspectives from Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Ukraine, Israel, Albania, Turkey, and Portugal. Section 1 describes the implications of engineering practices and computerized methods for environmental modeling. Section 2 examines methods and policies related to fish stock indicators and stock assessment. Section 3 details concepts and approaches in fishery and marine policy, regional management bodies, statistical data analyses, and marine spatial planning. Some specific topics include Black Sea sprat, fishery indicators in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, stock assessment of anchovy in the Northern Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the role of the Black Sea Commission in sustainable management, and time series database analysis on fisheries in Greece.
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