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Proper designation of essential fish habitat efh is a highly important spatial measure in any management of fishery resources efh is defined as those waters and substrates necessary to fish for spawning breeding feeding or growth to maturity a definition that includes the physical chemical and biological properties of marine areas and the associated sediment and biological assemblages . Essential fish habitat mapping in the mediterranean october 2008 hydrobiologia 6121 were used to gam development defining anchovy essential fish habitat in the catalan. Essential fish habitat mapping in the mediterranean october 2008 hydrobiologia 6121 essential fish habitat mapping in the mediterranean the development of validation tools for prediction. 12 mapping abundance distribution of small pelagic species applying hydroacoustics and co kriging techniques stratis georgakarakos dimitra kitsiou 13 identifying essential fish habitat for small pelagic species in spanish mediterranean waters. Essential fish habitat mapping in the mediterranean was studied in two sites in the western mediterranean fish adults and larvae of those two taxa were identified and sorted according to