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Athanassios Machias

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Date of Birth : 22/3/1959
Nationality : Greek
Language : Greek Native language.
English , French.

Education

• 1982 B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Athens,Greece.
  
• 1989 M.Sc in Marine Biology from the University of Crete,Greece
  
• 1994 Ph. D degree in Marine Biology from the University of Crete,Greece.
  

Professional Experience

• 1987 - to date. Participation and coordination of research projects carried out by the Fisheries Department of the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete and the Fisheries Research Laboratory of the University of Crete.
• 1998- to date. Researcher in the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete.

Current European Projects

• DG XIV Study Project 97-0044 "Analysis of the trawls' discard operation in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean sea." (Coordinator)
• DG XIV Study Project 97-0048 "Evaluation of the Southern Greek anchovy stocks" . (Coordinator)
• DG XIV Study Project 98-039. "Evaluation of the Southern Greek sardine stocks" . (Coordinator)
• DG XIV Study Project 98-041."State of the stocks of European wreckfish, Polyprion Americanus". (Coordinator)
• DG XIV Study Project 00-019. "Collection and management of data from commercial fisheries in Greece"
  Coordinator IMBC, partners NCMR, FRI. Total budget 776.797 EUROs,
  
• DG XIV Study Project 00-018. "Patterns and propensities in Greek fishing effort and catches".
  Coordinator IMBC, partner University of Thesalloniki.
  

Selected publications

• Tsimenides N., G. Tserpes, A. Machias and A. Kallianiotis. (1991). Distribution of fishes on the Cretan shelf. Journal of Fish Biology. 39: 661-672 pp.
• Tsimenides N., A. Machias and A. Kallianiotis. (1992). Distribution patterns of triglids, (Pisces: Triglidae), on the Cretan shelf (Greece) and their interspecific associations Fisheries Research. 15: 83-103 pp.
• Machias A. and N. Tsimenides. (1995). Biological factors affecting the swimbladder volume of sardine (Sardina pilchardus). Marine Biology , 123: 59-867 pp.
• Machias A., N. Tsimenides. (1996) Anatomical and physiological factors affecting the swimbladder cross-section of sardine Sardina pilchardus W. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 53(2):280-287 pp.
• Labropoulou M., A. Machias, N. Tsimenides, A. Eleftheriou. (1997) Feeding habits and ontogenetic diet shift of the striped red mullet Mullus. surmuletus Linnaeus 1758. Fisheries Research, 31: 257-267.
• Machias A., N. Tsimenides, L. Kokokiris and P. Divanach. (1998) Ring formation on otoliths and scales of Pagrus pagrus L.(Sparidae): a comparative study. Journal of fish biology, ôÞíï÷ 52: 350-361)
• Machias A., S. Somarakis and N. Tsimenides. (1998) Bathymetric distribution and movements of red mullet Mullus surmuletus. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 166: 247-257.
• Labropoulou M. and A. Machias. (1998) Effects of habitat selection on the dietary patterns of two triglids species. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 173: 275-288.
• M. Labropoulou, A. Machias and N. Tsimenides. 1999. Habitat selection and diet of the juvenile red porgy, Pagrus pagrus (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Cretan shelf. Fishery Bulletin 97: 495-507
• Giannoulaki M., A. Machias and N. Tsimenides. Ambient luminance and vertical migration of sardine (Sardina pilchardus). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 173: 275-288.
• Machias A., V. Vassilopoulou, D. Vatsos, P. Bekas, A. Kallianiotis, C. Papaconstantinou and N. Tsimenides. (1999). Trawling discards quantification in Greek waters. Ecosystem effects of fishing ICES/SCOP Symposium, 50 pp