Full professor of Ecology. He devoted his career to the study of bony fishes (trouts, salmons, sturgeons, eels, seabasses, seabreams, tunas, amberjacks), including species new candidates for aquaculture. He applied research tools (cytology, genetics, morphology, physiology, ecology, spatio-temporal dynamics) developing collaborations in coordinated programs. He was President of the General Fisheries Commission of the Mediterranean, the regional management body involving the countries (27) of the United Nations around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. He coordinated the Task Force devised to reform and update the structure of the Commission and the Common Fisheries Policy.