CORRADO PICCINETTI - ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA MARINE & FRESHWATER SCIENCE GROUP - LABORATORIO DI BIOLOGIA MARINA E PESCA DI FANO, viale Adriatico 1/n, 60123 Fano, Italy
Corrado Piccinetti (Fano, 8 April 1943) graduated with a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Bologna in 1966. He attended an international course on Marine Biology and Fishing Techniques at the University of Malta (summer of 1965), a more specialized course on the same subjects organized by the FAO in Kelibia, Tunisia (1968), and a course on population dynamics and assessment of fish stocks organized by FAO and CNEXO in Brest, France (1973). He has taken part in all the research studies of the Laboratory of Marine Biology and Fishery of Fano, affiliated with the University of Bologna, from 1964 to the present. He has been director of the University of Bologna’s Laboratory of Marine Biology and Fishery of Fano for 20 years. He is Associate Professor of Ecology in the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna; he received this post after teaching Hydrobiology and Fishculture in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. He is currently holding classes on Fishing and Aquiculture for the graduate course in Marine Environmental Sciences in Ravenna. Since 1939, the Laboratory of Marine Biology and Fishery of Fano has been responsible for research conducted through the University of Bologna on fishing and marine organisms. The has concluded studies on the biological and technological aspects of fishing, the biology of some species and marine animal groups; on the problems of ichtyoplanckton, particularly the eggs and larvae of Tunnidae, anchovies, and sardines; on some types of marineculture; on the development of underwater artificial structures, and on the creation of repopulation zones in the sea. His scientific activities have produced over 150 articles all of which are concerned with marine biological research. As Director of the Laboratory of Marine Biology and Fishery, he is a member of several committees for the Management of Sea Fishing and Regional Fishing Commissions.
Principal scientific publications:
Piccinetti C., Marceta B., Jukic-Peladic S., Vrgoc N., Dadic V. 1997: Ground fish stocks expedition EU MEDITS'96. Proceedings of abstracts of the papers of the sixth congress of croatian biologists, Zagreb: 349-350.
Jukic S., Vrgoc N., Dadic V., Krstulovic-Sifner S., Piccinetti C., Marceta B. 1999: Spatial and temporal distributions of some demersal fish populations in the Adriatic Sea described by GIS technique. Acta Adriatica 40 (suppl.): 55-66.
Jukic-Peladic. S., Vrgoc N., Krstulovic-Sifner S., Piccinetti C., Piccinetti-Manfrin G., Marano G., Ungaro N. 2001: Long-term changes in demersal resources of the Adriatic Sea: comparison between trawl surveys carried out in 1948 and 1998. Fisheries Research 53(1): 95–104.
Tinti F., Di Nunno C., Guarniero I., Talenti M., Fabbri E., Piccinetti C. 2002: Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation suggests the lack of genetic heterogeneity in the Adriatic and Ionian stocks of Sardina pilchardus. Marine Biotechnology 4: 111-120.
Guarniero I., Franzellitti S., Ungaro N., Tommasini S., Piccinetti C., Tinti F. 2002: Control region haplotype variation in the central Mediterranean common soles (Solea vulgaris) indicates geographical isolation and population structuring in Italian stocks. Journal of Fish Biology 60: 1466-1481.