About the Authors

Marco Barra

Affiliation Institute for Coastal and Marine Environment, Detached Units of Capo Granitola, Mazara del Vallo and Naples, Italy

Pierre Petitgas

Affiliation IFREMER, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Halieutique, Nantes, France

Angelo Bonanno

Affiliation Institute for Coastal and Marine Environment, Detached Units of Capo Granitola, Mazara del Vallo and Naples, Italy

Stylianos Somarakis

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Iraklion, Greece

Mathieu Woillez

Affiliation IFREMER, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Halieutique, Nantes, France

Athanasios Machias

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Iraklion, Greece

Salvatore Mazzola

Affiliation Institute for Coastal and Marine Environment, Detached Units of Capo Granitola, Mazara del Vallo and Naples, Italy

Gualtiero Basilone

Affiliation Institute for Coastal and Marine Environment, Detached Units of Capo Granitola, Mazara del Vallo and Naples, Italy

Marianna Giannoulaki

marianna@hcmr.gr

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Iraklion, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PP MB MG SS. Performed the experiments: MB MG. Analyzed the data: MB MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW PP. Wrote the paper: MG MB PP SS AB MW AM GB SM.