https://www.oceanexpert.net/expert/Zanella%20Andrea

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5231-603X

MSc

Data Management
Natural Resource Management
Operational Support (technical)
Decision Making & Policy
Technical Advice & Consulting
Other

Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Fisheries, Aquaculture
Marine and Coastal Engineering
Policy, Law, Economics, Management
Research Support Services

From March 2020, I am working for WWF Italy as Fisheries and Maritime Spatial Planning Expert. I am representing WWF’s position during national consultation tables to ensure that the ecosystem approach is integrated in the development of maritime spatial management plans; I am also participating in the development and implementation of WWF Italy's strategy on offshore wind, acting as focal point for the Mediterranean Marine Initiative of WWF on offshore wind and maritime spatial planning issues. I am the Project Manager, for Italy, of the MAVA NTZ MPA Project. I am the Project Coordinator of the SSF Project.

I worked from March 2020 to October 2021 on the IMPLEMED Project on the implementation of bottom trawling gears in the Mediterranean; and from March 2020 to December 2020, I directly followed the partnership with BOLTON Food on the sustainability of their supply of sardines and small pelagic and related fisheries in Ecuador, Morocco, Croatia, Spain and Italy.

I collaborated from January 2017 to April 2021 with the Marine Institute of the National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR) of Venice, the University of Queensland and the University IUAV of Venice on the publication of one scientific paper and a report as a co-author about the activities and results obtained during my consultancy in 2016 at the CNR-ISMAR of Venice.

From May to December 2019, I worked as Project Researcher at the University Institute of ECOAQUA (ULPCG) for the MarSP Project (Macaronesian Maritime Spatial Planning). I involved key stakeholders (e.g. fishing sectors, diving centres, marine heritage, off-shore windfarms and aquaculture) in the development of a maritime spatial plan in the framework of the MarSP Project. I organised meeting and workshops with the main maritime sectors, collecting different type of data which were subsequently analysed and mapped. I also worked as the Operational Manager on the technical proposal for a maritime spatial plan in the Exclusive Economic Zone of the Canaries. During the project, I have mapped, for the first time in the Canaries, all the small-scale fisheries activities in all the islands of the archipelago.

From December 2017 to February 2019, I worked at seaExpert as Project Coordinator for the European ORFISH Project. Moreover, I actively participated in experimental fishing activities, coordinating them in the all aspects, including organization, monitoring and the construction of some fishing devices (e.g. Moored FAD).

From August to November 2017, I collaborated as the main author with the University of the Azores on the publication of a scientific paper related to Maritime Spatial Planning, marine biodiversity conservation and Systematic Conservation Planning tools.

From May to December 2016, I worked with the Marine Institute of the National Research Council of Venice, within the ADRIPLAN Project, as a consultant for the development of application of the tool MARXAN and MARXAN with ZONES in the Adriatic-Ionian region, in the Adriatic region and in the Emilia Romagna region.

From September to December 2015, I did an internship at the DTU AQUA of Copenhagen focusing my work on the design of a network of Marine Protected Areas in the Kattegat Sea, considering the main socio-economic activities within it.

From November 2013 to December 2015, I have collaborated with Shoreline Soc. COOP on the connection n between the different fisheries activities carried out in the Gulf of Trieste and the future implementation of the 2014-2020 EMFF (European Maritime and Fisheries Fund).

From May to August 2014, I did an internship at the DTU AQUA of Copenhagen, where I partecipated in field work in sampling programs related to investigating fish assemblages on rocky reefs at different depths (RevFisk Project), as well as field work aimed at investigating the importance of coastal marine habitats for juvenile European eel (Sargasso-eel Project); I helped with the setting up and running of the laboratory experiment with European eel. I also worked in the lab for the IMPAQ Project, a project about the sustainability of the Danish marine aquaculture farms.

From May to August 2014, I worked, as a member of the Laguna Venexiana Onlus, on the EU Project SERESTO (SEagrass RESTOration - Habitat 1150 (coastal lagoon).

From January to September 2013, I did an internship at Natural Marine Reserve of Miramare (Italy), where I mainly focused on the management of Marine Protected Areas, the analysis of anthropic pressure levels of fisheries and their repercussions on the Marine Reserve's protection targets.

From December 2008 to September 2009, I did an internship at Ca’ Foscari University, where I analysed the effects of the fishing gear used to harvest Manila clam on the macro-benthic community of the Lagoon of Venice.

Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Black Sea
North Atlantic Ocean
South Atlantic Ocean
Adriatic Sea
Ionian Sea
Baltic Sea

I specialized on Ecosystem-Based Approach on Maritime Spatial Planning, on the design of network of Marine Protected Areas and/or No-Take Zones considering socioeconomic activities; as well as on the design of new areas suitable for aquaculture.

I am working, since several years, with Marine Protected Areas and fishers, following different fishing activities and focusing on different aspects, from management to implementation of best practises.

Since several years I am working on stakeholder’s engagement and involvement, in particular with fishers.

For years I have been working on the sustainability of fisheries.

Offshore Wind Farms development in the contest of Ecosystem-Based Approach on Maritime Spatial Planning (EBA-MSP) and Nature protection.

Italian
English
Spanish
Portuguese

ResearchGate
Other

- MSc on Maritime Spatial Planning
- MSc in Environmental Sciences with specialization in Marine and Coastal systems

Computer skills: 

Working skills and academic knowledge with the Geographic Information System (ArcGIS and QGIS) for geographical data analysis;
Working skills with MARXAN, MARXAN Zonae Cogito, QMARXAN and MARXAN with Zones;
Working skills with CLUZ (Conservation Land-Use Zoning software); Working skill with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Power Point). Basic working skills with statistical techniques such as MDS (MultiDimensional Scaling), ANOVA (ANalysis Of VAriance) and ANOSIM (ANalysis Of SIMilarities);
Basic working skills with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign;
Basic knowledge of R, Stella, PowerSIM and Ecopath software.

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