Vol.27 – 2021 – No.2

Introductory pages

Editor’s note

New record of the benthic marine mucilage aggregates Phaeocystis giraudii from Turkish Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Emine Şükran Okudan, Berrin Dural, Hüseyin Erdugan, Yelda Aktan, Volkan Demir, Veysel Aysel

Investigation of the effects of mucilage on maritime operation
Esma Uflaz, Emre Akyüz, Fırat Bolat, Pelin Bolat, Özcan Arslan

A preliminary assessment of the mass mortality of some benthic species due to the mucilage phenomenon of 2021 in the Çanakkale Strait (Dardanelles) and North Aegean Sea
H. Barış Özalp

Sea snot and its impacts on the fisheries in the Sea of Marmara and its adjacent waters
Taner Yıldız, Onur Gönülal

Vertical distribution of mucilage typology in the water column after a massive mucilage formation in the surface waters of the Sea of Marmara
İ. Destan Öztürk, Sabri Mutlu, Gökhan Kaman, Fatma Bayram Partal, Ayşen Demirtaş, Senem Çağlar, Ersan Kuzyaka, Hüsne Altıok, Dilek Ediger

Preliminary study on cryptobenthic fish assemblages affected by the mucilage event in the northeastern Aegean Sea
Cem Dalyan, Nur Bikem Kesici, Ferhat Yalgın

Effects of mucilage on the benthic crustacean in the North Aegean Sea
Herdem Aslan, Zeynep Tekeli, Özge Bacak

The early stage of mucilage formation in the Marmara Sea during spring 2021
Halim Aytekin Ergul, Neslihan Balkis-Ozdelice, Merve Koral, Serdar Aksan, Turgay Durmus, Mert Kaya, Melih Kayal, Fatih Ekmekci, Oltan Canli

The current impact of mucilage on tourism and underwater cultural heritage in the Marmara region
Can Kalkavan

The impact of the massive mucilage outbreak in the Sea of Marmara on gorgonians of Prince Islands: A qualitative assessment
Nur Eda Topçu, Bayram Öztürk

First record of Leucothea multicornis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (Ctenophora: Lobota: Leucotheidae) in the Lebanese coastal waters, eastern Mediterranean Sea – CORRIGENDUM
Ghazi Bitar, Ali Badreddine