Published in the journal Estuaries and Coasts on September 4, 2025. More details here . A study on the movements of the Atlantic blue crab in the Guadiana estuary, coordinated by the NEMA team, was recently published. Twenty-four blue crabs were tagged with acoustic transmitters, which provided information about their movements in the estuary over a period of nine months. The main results indicate: A high degree of success for the study, as all 24 blue crabs initially tagged

The blue crab "Callinectes sapidus" first appeared in the Algarve in 2016 in the Ria Formosa and since then has been increasing...

BUT WHY THE CONCERN ABOUT INVASIVE SPECIES?! To better understand the concern about invasive species, it is first necessary to know what...

Published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science on 02 July 2022. Available here. A paper has recently been published in...

Published in the Estuaries and Coasts journal on June 9, 2022. More details here. In June 2022, our team published an article about the...

Published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science in November 01, 2021. Available here. Our team has just published an article...

In August 2021 we once again organize a series of Underwater FotoBlitzs within the scope of NEMA, and this year with the theme "In search...

Aquatic invasive species, especially in the marine environment, present greater difficulties in their management, making it practically...

Over the past year, by gathering information resulting from the hundreds of observations that have been submitted by citizens to NEMA, as...

Published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science on 27 January 2021. Available here. Our team has just published an article on...