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The Eel management software (EMS) has been developed in order to provide a user-friendly tool to assess the effectiveness of management plans for the endangered European eel (Anguilla anguilla). This software allows evaluating both production (i.e. escapement to the sea) of silver eels and fishermen catches in a specific site, in different conditions as actual, pristine (i.e. unaffected by antropogenic impacts) and potential ones as required by the European Regulation EC 1100/2007. The flexibility of the tool allows the user to consider several environmental and management scenarios by defining the characteristics of the site, the exploitation level of the stock and the management plan constraints, and eventually comparing the results obtained under different scenarios.

Although the EMS is based on the most trustworthy and up-to-date knowledge about eel population dynamics, it is just an approximation of reality; therefore, the outputs of the model should not be considered reliable in absolute terms. In contrast, the great usefulness of this software is that it allows the user to compare the effects of different management actions, to evaluate the advantages or disadvantages (in terms of silver eels escapement and fishermen catches) of adopting different management policies and to assess the effectiveness of different management plans.

Endangered Species:

Black Abalone

Reproductive Potential Can Predict Recruitment Rates in Abalone.

Combating Global Climate Change:

I have used techniques for the monetary and non monetary assessment of local and global external costs of energy production to assess the economic benefits of the Kyoto Protocol in Italy.