Research fellow

Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Sicily Marine Centre
Department of Integrative Marine Ecology (EMI)
Villa Pace - C.da Porticatello 29, 98167 Messina – Italia

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Curriculum vitae
Francesco Longo - ResearchGate

Supervisors: dott.ssa Teresa Romeo
Appointed on project: CRIMAC

Research Interests

My research activities are on fisheries management and sustainable use of fishery resources, with a focus on small-scale fisheries. I have expertise in involving fishery stakeholders, particularly fishers, in the process of developing co-management systems to facilitate sustainable exploitation of fishery resources. I have expertise in surveying and collecting biological, socio-economic, catch and effort data on fisheries both on board and at landing points and also on national and EU fisheries legislation.
My other research interests include age and growth estimation in fishes using otolith analysis, particularly in mesopelagic and bathypelagic fish species, and taxonomy of cephalopods and Mediterranean fishes. Lately, I have also been focusing on studying the impact of marine litter in marine organisms, including elasmobranchs and cephalopod species.

Selected Publications

• Rizzo, L., Minichino, R., Longo, F., Sciutteri, V., Pedà, C., Consoli, P., & Crocetta, F. (2024). Not only in the crowd: benthic litter characterization in a low population density area still reveals widespread pollution and local malpractices. Environmental Pollution, 124262. (DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124262)

• De Domenico, F., Pedà, C., Berti, C., Consoli, P., Longo, F., Greco, S., & Romeo, T. (2023). Reducing marine litter pollution from anchored fish aggregating devices: Sicilian good practices and the legislative paradox. Marine Policy, 154, 105695. (DOI:10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105695)

• Longo F., Malara D., Asciutto E., Battaglia P., 2023. Growth of the mesopelagic fish Vinciguerria attenuata (Cocco, 1838) in the Strait of Messina (central Mediterranean Sea). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 11, 1055.(DOI:10.3390/jmse11051055)

• Battaglia, P., Pedà, C., Rizzo, C., Stipa, M.G., Arcadi, E., Longo, F., Ammendolia, G., Cavallaro, M., Rao, I., Villari, A., Calogero, R., Consoli, P., Sinopoli, M., Andaloro, F., Romeo, T., 2023. How rare are Argonautoidea octopuses in the Mediterranean? New data from stranding events, stomach contents and genetics. Biology, 12, 420. (DOI:10.3390/biology12030420 )

• Sciutteri V., Pedà C., Longo F., Calogero R., Cangemi G., Pagano L., Battaglia P., Nannini M., Romeo T., Consoli P., 2023. Integrated approach for marine litter pollution assessment in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea: Information from bottom-trawl fishing and plastic ingestion in deep-sea fish. Marine Pollution Bulletin 188, 114661. WOS:000925438500001. (DOI:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114661)