The HIDTMA company, through its international project manager ABARLOA2 participates in the “Project for the Protection of Marine and Coastal Resources in the Gulf of Gabès: Inventory of introduced marine and lake species, and management of ballast waters”.

The study, in which the University of Alicante is taking part, seeks to analyse the effect that ballast waters in the Gulf of Gabes have had on marine species.
To do so, they have been undertaking an inventory of indigenous and introduced species upon which the eventual ecological consequences that the latter may have had upon the former will be analysed.

The work to be carried out includes sampling of experimental fishing, immersions, benthic sampling via dredging, plankton sampling, coastal sampling and water quality.