Giangrande Adriana, Licciano Margherita, Arduini Daniele, Borghese Jacopo, Pierri Cataldo, Trani Roberta, Longo Caterina, Petrocelli Antonella, Ricci Patrizia, Alabiso Giorgio, Cavallo Rosa Anna, Acquaviva Maria Immacolata, Narracci Marcella, Stabili Loredana
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, 73047 Lecce, Italy.
Department of Biology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy.
Biology (Basel). 2022 Apr 18;11(4):617. doi: 10.3390/biology11040617.
The results of an survey aiming to assess the impact of a fish farm in the Mar Grande of Taranto (southern Italy, Mediterranean Sea) on the surrounding environment are reported. There, the implementation of an innovative IMTA plant was planned, with the goals of environment bioremediation and commercially exploitable biomass production. Analyses were conducted in February and July 2018. Both seawater and sediments were sampled at the four corners of the fish farm to detect the existing biological and physico-chemical features. The investigation was performed to identify the best area of the farming plant for positioning the bioremediating system, but also to obtain a data baseline, to compare to the environmental status after the bioremediating action. Data were also analyzed by canonical analysis of principal coordinates (CAP). All the measurements, in particular, microbiology and macrobenthic community characterization using AZTI's Marine Biotic Index (AMBI) and the Multivariate-AMBI (M-AMBI) indices, suggest that the effect of fish farm waste was concentrated and limited to a small portion of the investigated area in relation to the direction of the main current. A site named A3, which was found to be the most impacted by the aquaculture activities, especially during the summer season, was chosen to place the bioremediation system.
报告了一项旨在评估意大利南部地中海塔兰托大港湾的一个养鱼场对周边环境影响的调查结果。在那里，计划实施一个创新的综合多营养水产养殖（IMTA）工厂，目标是进行环境生物修复和生产可商业开发的生物量。分析在2018年2月和7月进行。在养鱼场的四个角落采集海水和沉积物样本，以检测现有的生物和理化特征。进行这项调查是为了确定养殖工厂中放置生物修复系统的最佳区域，同时也是为了获得一个数据基线，以便与生物修复行动后的环境状况进行比较。数据还通过主坐标典型分析（CAP）进行分析。所有测量结果，特别是使用AZTI海洋生物指数（AMBI）和多变量AMBI（M-AMBI）指数对微生物和大型底栖动物群落特征的测量结果表明，养鱼场废物的影响集中在与主流方向相关的调查区域的一小部分。一个名为A3的地点被发现受水产养殖活动影响最大，尤其是在夏季，该地点被选为放置生物修复系统的地点。
