Dr. Antonello Sala, is the LTA for Component I of the REBYC-III CLME + Project.
He is a senior fisheries scientist with more than 35 years of experience studying the wider ecosystem effects of fishing on the marine environment at the National Research Council (CNR).
Dr. Sala has expert knowledge of physical and biological impacts in the marine environment produced by human activities, as well as impacts and operations of global fisheries, including marine litter, efficiency and selectivity of fishing gears, performance of fishing gears using underwater instrumentation, fishing gear design and modelling, and energy saving measures in fisheries operations. He has also been the lead scientist in numerous international research projects and national projects as well as chief scientist in more than 40 interdisciplinary oceanographic sea cruises.
Dr. Sala has expert knowledge of physical and biological impacts in the marine environment produced by human activities, as well as impacts and operations of global fisheries, including marine litter, efficiency and selectivity of fishing gears, performance of fishing gears using underwater instrumentation, fishing gear design and modelling, and energy saving measures in fisheries operations. He has also been the lead scientist in numerous international research projects and national projects as well as chief scientist in more than 40 interdisciplinary oceanographic sea cruises.
For the period 2020 to 2024, he was the chairperson of the ICES/FAO Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour (WGFTFB). In 2020 and 2023, he chaired the ICES Workshop of Innovative gear (WKING, WKING2) and from 2010 to 2019, Dr. Sala was a member and vice-chair (in 2018-2019) of the EU-STECF Committee (European Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries).