Red Coral Fishery at the Costa Brava (NW Mediterranean): Case Study of an Overharvested Precious Coral

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Low connectivity and declining genetic variability along a depth gradient in Corallium rubrum populations (2011, background): “Once a red coral patch disappears due to overharvesting or mass mortality events (Tsounis et al. 2007; Garrabou et al. 2009), its recovery will depend on the larval supply from other patches, which will only be occasional and these populations may became locally extinct (Santangelo et al.”
Overview of the conservation status of Mediterranean anthozoa (2017, background): “During the 1980s, at least 25 locations supported the harvest of Corallium rubrum, while today the only known official and commercially viable beds are found along the African coast in Tunisia, in Greece, in the Bonifacio Strait off western Sardinia, Italy, and off Costa Brava and Mallorca, Spain (T”
Deep-water Corallium rubrum (L., 1758) from the Mediterranean Sea: preliminary genetic characterisation (2010, background): “…Atlantic Ocean (Zibrowius et al. 1984; Chintiroglou et al. 1989; Cattaneo-Vietti & Cicogna 1993; Rossi et al. 2008) and it has been commercially harvested since ancient times due to the high economic value of its red axial calcitic skeleton (Tescione 1973; Taviani 1997; Tsounis et al. 2007).”