The Center for Adriatic Biodiversity Conservation is designed within the project \u201cMarine Biodiversity Conservation Center \u201cBoka Aquarium\u201d \u2013 MonteAqua\u201d, which is implementing by the Institute of Marine Biology of the University of Montenegro in cooperation with the Center for Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation of Inland Waters, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, under the grant provided by The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade. Setting up the Center is the main MonteAqua project activity, planned for the period from December 2017 to June 2020.<\/span>\nThe Center is designed with two main units: Aquarium Boka and Rescue Center. The Aquarium Boka is designed as the first Montenegrin public aquarium and conservation advocacy center. Its role will be to promote the implementation of marine protected areas in Montenegro and all means of marine biodiversity protection. The particular role will be in the promotion of sustainable seafood choices. It is expected that Aquarium Boka will become the main player in the conservation and restoration of key threatened marine wildlife species in Montenegrin Adriatic, and beyond. The Rescue center is designed with four main roles: (1) Animal welfare: short-term shelter, care, and rehabilitation center with the goal of finding a more suitable placement of threatened species for longer-term stay elsewhere; (2) Law enforcement: receiving confiscated animals, providing expert testimony, helping the police, customs, and wildlife authorities pursue the prosecution of traffickers and animal abusers; (3) Raising awareness; and (4) Nature conservation and biodiversity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/li>\nMarine invertebrates from Boka Kotorska Bay represent a \u201cgold mine\u201d with value over 40 billion EUR<\/strong><\/li>\nMarine sponges from the Boka Kotorska Bay represent a gold mine for both marine pharmacology, biotechnology, and bioinspired materials science. The average value of bromotyrosines which are synthesized exclusively in sponges (e.g. in <\/span>Aplysina aerophoba<\/span><\/i>) is 500 EUR per milligram. Using novel methods of extraction, it is possible to get 1 g of Aeroplysinin-1 from 100 g of dry sponge, meaning 1 kg of a wet sponge. It indicates a 40 billion EUR value of Aeroplysinin-1 from the estimated natural stock of 8 tons of <\/span>A. aerophoba<\/span><\/i> in Kotor Bay<\/span>.<\/span>\nThe ichthyoplankton research shows that a large number of fish species of commercial importance choose the waters of the Bay for spawning. Among them, the largest number of individuals belongs<\/span><\/p>\nThe Boka Kotorska Bay is home for 59 fish species<\/strong><\/li>\nThe ichthyoplankton research shows that a large number of fish species of commercial importance choose the waters of the Bay for spawning. Among them, the largest number of individuals belongs <\/span>in the summertime to the <\/span>Engraulis encrasicolus<\/span><\/i>, then <\/span>Diplodus annularis<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Coris julis<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Diplodus<\/span><\/i> puntazzo<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Gaidropsaurus mediterraneus<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Serranus hepatus<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Sardinella aurita<\/span><\/i>, while the species <\/span>Sardina pilchardus<\/span><\/i> is predominant in wintertime<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBack to\u00a0Fascinating facts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fascinating Facts on\u00a0 the Boka Kotorska Bay The Boka Kotorska Bay looks like a fjord with a coastline of about 100km Sastoji se od \u010detiri me\u0111usobno povezane manje uvale (uvale Herceg Novi i Tivat \u010dine spolja\u0161nji deo, dok uvale Risan i Kotor \u010dine unutra\u0161nji deo) i dva tjesnaca, od kojih jedan povezuje otvoreno more sa Hercegnovskim zalivom, a drugi (Verige)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":2481,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2502\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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