Vol.19 – 2013 – No.2

Benthic marine algae in Northern Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea)
Ergün Taşkın, Mehmet Öztürk, Oğuz Kurt, Sevilay Ulcay

Some aspects of the biology and the present state of the population of Protodrilus flavocapitatus (Polychaeta: Protodrilidae) in the coastal zone of Crimea (the Black Sea)
Vera Kopiy

Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) sightings in the Aegean and Mediterranean part of Turkish waters
Ayaka Amaha Öztürk, Arda M. Tonay, Ayhan Dede

Parasitic cestodes of fish in the waters off Gökçeada, North Aegean Sea
Ahmet Akmirza

Phthalate pollution in fish Sarda sarda, Engraulis encrasicolus, Mullus surmuletus, Merlangius merlangus and shrimp Parapenaeus longirostris
Kasım Cemal Güven, Burak Coban

A study on some morphological characteristics of Astacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz 1823) in seven different inland waters in Turkey
Tomris Deniz (Bök), Hamdi Aydın, Celal Ateş

The first observations of oocyte diameters for the pipefish from the southern Black Sea
Şule Gürkan, Burcu Taylan

Age, growth and reproduction of Mullus surmuletus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Saros Bay (Northern Aegean Sea)
Mukadder Arslan, Ali İşmen

Environmental and safe optimization of crude oil washing on crude oil tankers
Murat Hasan Ali Altun, Özcan Arslan

Annotated check list of the non˗native fish species (Pisces) of the Black Sea
Maria Yankova, Danail Pavlov, Petya Ivanova, Evgenia Karpova, Alexander Boltachev, Levent Bat, Muammer Oral, Marina Mgeladze

Some remarks of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing in Turkish part of the Black Sea
Bayram Öztürk

Assessing the vulnerability to pollution in the aquifer’s Charf El Akab (Tangier, Morocco)
Laila Achagra, Jamal Stitou El Messari, Mohamed Draoui

Marine and coastal birds of the Istanbul Strait
Asaf Ertan

Preliminary report of a stranding case of Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779) on Antalya coast, Turkey, April 2013
Erdem Danyer, Elif Özgür Özbek, Işıl Aytemiz, Arda M. Tonay