During her stay in Split, Dr Eve Galimany Sanromà also delivered a lecture for researchers at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries. The lecture explored the effects of rising sea temperatures on Mediterranean and Atlantic mussel populations. The Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) is an important species for shellfish farming along both the Spanish Mediterranean and North Atlantic coasts, with Spain ranking as the world’s third-largest mussel producer. However, rising seawater temperatures over the past two decades have increasingly threatened mussel production in the Mediterranean, where summer mortality events have become recurrent.
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