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Vocabulary

Controlled terms for Adriatic species, places, habitats, and techniques: the canonical entities used in AlgoCatch schema.

Seas, coasts, and places

Mediterranean geography used by AlgoCatch, from basin to Adriatic sea to coast to fishing place.

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean contains the Adriatic. AlgoCatch currently publishes fishing maps and vocabulary for the Adriatic arm.

Adriatic Sea

Arm of the Mediterranean Sea between the Italian and Balkan peninsulas, bordered by Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania.

Coasts

Dalmatia

Historical region of Croatia stretching along the central and southern Adriatic coast, with hundreds of islands between Zadar and Dubrovnik.

Istria

The largest peninsula in the Adriatic, shared by Croatia, Slovenia and Italy, with a rocky, indented coastline.

Kvarner

Gulf in the northern Adriatic between Istria and the Croatian mainland, home to the islands of Krk, Cres, Lošinj and Rab.

NE Italy (Trieste–Ancona)

Italian Adriatic coast from Trieste to Ancona, including the Gulf of Trieste, the Venetian Lagoon and the Po Delta; mostly low, sandy shores.

Slovenian coast

Slovenia's short Adriatic coastline of about 47 km on the Gulf of Trieste, with the towns of Koper, Izola and Piran.

Species

Habitats

Techniques

Concepts