INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES Annual Report 2009 - 2010 www.izor.hr INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES Annual Report 2009 - 2010 Editor: Ivona Marasović Editorial board: Branka Grbec Olja Vidjak Ante Žuljević Contributors: Ingrid Čatić, Vlado Dadić, Marija Despalatović, Branko Dragičević, Jakov Dulčić, Živana Ninčević-Gladan, Vanja Čikeš Keč, Nada Krstulović, Grozdan Kušpilić, Anita Maručić, Jasna Maršić Lučić, Slavica Matijević, Mira Morović, Vedran Nikolić, Gorenka Sinovčić, Sanja Matić-Skoko, Mladen Šolić. Layout and design: Ante Žuljević Split, December 2010. Preface In this biannual report of the Institute of Oceanography of new species in marine aquaculture, which is now and Fisheries for the years 2009 and 2010 we should considered a key scientific problem in the investigation especially pay attention to the year 2009 which was of the sea food. very important for the Institute of Oceanography and By the beginning of 2010, after many years of failed Fisheries, because after 56 years the Institute got a new efforts, the Institute has managed to obtain new oceanographic research vessel, the BIOS II. workspaces, but because of the global recession The name BIOS II symbolizes the long tradition of the which is reflected onto the operations of the Institute, Institute in scientific research, because the new ship, restoration and renovation of these areas are likely to together with the name has assumed all those tasks be slowed. that the old BIOS for years successfully carried out, and Scientific activity of the Institute in 2009 and 2010 took which shall now be performed in much shorter time and place within twenty national and international scientific with much more complex and modern equipment. After research projects and results of this activity are manifested many years of use and countless trips in the Adriatic through the papers published in CC journals as well as waters, the old BIOS was no longer adequate for all the in a number of scientific papers by researchers of the challenges that research and today’s modern science Institute presented at some forty international scientific require. With the new research vessel, the Institute can meetings and published in the congress proceedings. be actively and equally involved in all major international During 2009 and 2010 the Institute was the organizer projects undertaken in the Adriatic, and even the of six international conferences and workshops related Mediterranean. to the on-going projects. BIOS II is 37 meters long, has the latest equipment In addition, in 2009 several significant international for oceanographic and fisheries research, 15 double projects were completed. At the same time work began cabins equipped with private toilet facilities, lounges, on two new international projects (FP7 and IPA), while laboratories, and the area where the ship can carry out four international projects are still under evaluation, the research includes the Adriatic and the Mediterranean which should be completed by the end of 2010. In the Sea. The new ship was built with joint funds of the last few years, the Institute is increasingly focusing on Institute and the Ministry of Education and Sports of the use of funds from international sources; due to the the Republic of Croatia, so I would also like to take this high cost of oceanographic research our national funds opportunity to thank all former and current employees for research projects are insufficient for conducting of the Institute, who with their work and renunciation regular surveys of the sea. contributed to this project. Besides the acquisition of new ship, in 2009 laboratory In Split, December 2010. facilities for testing the shellfish toxicity were additionally equipped, and now, in addition to HPLC and other Director of the Institute standard equipment, are equipped with the latest LC / Prof. Ivona Marasović MS / MS device. In 2010 experimental hatchery has been completely updated, thus enabling the Institute to be opened to additional opportunities of involvement in the international research projects related to the introduction A Brief History of the Institute The Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries was famous expeditions NAJADAE and CICLOPE (1911- founded in 1930 as the first national institution for sea 1914). In the early 60’s the Institute began with monthly research. The project of Institute’s foundation was measurements of phytoplankton primary production in very seriously approached, so it took 10 years for the the coastal and open sea of the middle Adriatic, which completion of the plan. The first director of the Institute, was the first research of that kind in the Adriatic Sea. the Norwegian professor Dr. Hjalmar Broch was chosen Beginning of the seventies was marked by a new through the international job competition. Prof. Broch activity, focusing on the coastal area. More specifically, moved from Oslo to Split to organize scientific work in rapid urbanization of coastal area has resulted in the the Institute, based on Norwegian experiences. appearance of pollution of certain parts of the coastal Three main aims of the Institute’s activities were also sea, creating the need for development of ecological established: studies. At that time the monitoring program “VIR- 1. pure scientific research KONAVLE” was established, to investigate the quality 2. application of scientific results in order to improve of seawater in Dalmatian coastal area. This monitoring fisheries development program is taking place even today. 3. educating young scientists and wider public. In mid-seventies, the “Biological Institute” from Dubrovnik After Prof. H. Broch left the Institute, there was already a joined the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries. It group of young scientists who went to specialize abroad was reorganized into two separate laboratories of the (to France, Germany, Denmark). The Institute was then Institute and in this form its activities continued until led by the Scientific Council which consisted of several 2006, when it joined the University of Dubrovnik. well-known scientists (Stanković, Vouk, Đorđević and At the beginning of 80’s, the International Summer Hadži). At that time, a systematic research at sea was School “Fisheries Educational Centre for Developing initiated, within which four permanent oceanographic Countries” started and it existed as a three-month stations in the central Adriatic were established. The course from 1981 to 1990, i.e. till the beginning of Institute continued its activities during the Second the War. This period was marked by the successes World War, although with lower intensity. After the War, of the Institute’s scientists in the research of early Prof. Dr. Tonko Šoljan became the director and initiated developmental stages of sea bass, which was extremely one of the most active and successful periods in the important for aquaculture in the whole Mediterranean. history of this Institute. At that time the work on organizing and equipping a The most important project of the Institute in that period computer center began, with intention to establish the was organizing the “Hvar” Expedition (1948-49), an Central Database for the Adriatic Sea. endeavor that by its size and number of collected data In the early nineties the Institute was very actively involved represents even today a unique accomplishment in in educational activities and, within the University of oceanography of the Adriatic Sea. Split, organized the Department of Marine Studies, the At that time, regular monthly samplings and first and only program of its kind in Croatia. measurements of physical, chemical and plankton parameters on the transect Split-Gargano also began, which are continued to this day. Based on those data, scientists of the Institute gained new and important insights into the dynamics of the Adriatic waters (known as “Adriatic ingressions”), and insights into the correlation between occasional increased inflow of Mediterranean water into the Adriatic and increased productivity of the Adriatic waters. During the 1960’s, the Institute was especially active through participation in the international expedition MGG (expedition organized in honor of International Geophysics Year), within which the research was performed on the same transects as in the time of the Cooperation with the University of Split and University Within the National monitoring program “The Adriatic of Dubrovnik continued through the establishment Project“(“Projekt Jadran”), the surveillance measuring of joint PhD program in Applied Marine Sciences. system of oceanographic buoys was developed. At Collaboration with the University of Zagreb and Institute the same time, in order to ensure the safe storage and “Ruđer Bošković” was realized through establishment quality verification of the collected data, as well as to of the joint PhD program in Oceanology. make them more accessible to end users, the Institute’s The late nineties, as well as the beginning of the new databank was developed. Today this databank contains century, were characterized by intense international more than 80% of all the different measurements data cooperation, human resources restoration, acquisition in the Adriatic Sea. of modern research equipment and the construction of a new research vessel. FABIJAN KALITERNA, Architect (1886 - 1952) Architect Fabijan Kaliterna was born in Split in 1886. Upon completion of the secondary education (Velika realka), in 1906 he enrolled in the Building Department of Higher Technical School in