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In mid October 2024, a team from IMEDMAR-UCV travelled to the Ebro Delta to recover several specimens of Pinna nobilis.

Follow up of the Venice Lagoon resistant population and collection of biological samples

The identification to species levels is currently underway in the IMEDMAR-UCV installations

In collaboration with Forestal Catalana and Submon, juveniles were found in the north of Spain

Findings on feeding recommendations will be published as a protocol by the Murcia University Aquarium-UA and IMEDMAR

Collectors are installed ahead of the breeding season to signal larval availability and potential recruitment

Francesca Carella (UNINA) is studying a potential new infection linked to immunodeficiency

13 new Marine Protected Areas were defined and proposed towards the conservation of the species

Monitoring of translocated juveniles in the Fangar Bay took place this Februrary 2023

The University of Murcia, the University of Alicante, and Ecologistas en Acción conduct a thorough search through the lagoon to discover new individuals

As in previous occasions, extractions of haemolymph were performed to several P. nobilis in both Ebro Delta bays

 Island IMEDMAR-UCV visited UNINA as part of the translocation efforts and tissue sampling

CIMAR-UA is actively searching for recruits of Pinna nobilis potentially present in collectors

Higher efforts to find new individuals have been done in the National Park of Cabrera due to the high densities recorded

A distance sampling survey was conducted for estimating the abundance of the species in the Alfacs bay

40 P. nobilis juveniles are being monitored to study their survival and growth rate in Kalloni Gulf

Follow up of adult individuals is being conducted monthly in Balearic islands by CSIC-IEO

Regrouping of potentially resistant individuals and reallocation of juveniles found in shallow areas in Alfacs Bay, Spain

Search for individuals in risk of death because of low tide and extreme conditions 

IRTA’s proposal for environmental improvement in fan mussel sanctuary areas (action C.6.)

Translocations of Pinna nobilis individuals in Greece, with the visit of the IMEDMAR team

Juveniles were collected from a transit area of the Étang de Thau lagoon to transfer them to a safer location on Embiez Island

IMEDMAR-CSIC persists in the search for pen shell larvae within the framework of the project

Constant monitoring of the highly affected zone, focusing on parasite impact and survival patterns

28 juvenile individuals were translocated to a sanctuary area in Kalloni Gulf

UA is developing various assays to establish protocols for the collection and translocation of Pinna nobilis

Optimal areas free of the pathogen (sanctuary) are being explored by CSIC-IEO in the Balearic Islands

Improvement and maximizing the possibilities of captive reproduction in IMEDMAR-UCV (Calpe, Valencia) and UA installations (Murcia)

Monitoring of the 5 selected areas of the Alfacs Bay that have been monthly sampled throughout the 2022