Stefano Cataudella: Full Professor of Applied Ecology at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. Research work related to fish biology and aquaculture, valliculture and coastal lagoons management. Consultant of the European Community, FAO, many private fish farms and Consultancy Groups. SEACASE: UTV scientific responsible - Valliculture.	Michele Scardi: Associate Professor of Ecology in UTV. His main research activities are focused on aquatic ecosystems and involve ecological data analysis and modelling, especially based on the application of Machine Learning techniques. He is in the editorial board of Ecological Informatics and of the International Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences. SEACASE: data analysis.
Clara Boglione: Researcher at UTV. Her research activity mainly deals with Developmental Biology of fish; Morphological quality of fish larvae and juveniles; Effects of environmental stress or pollution on larval ontogenesis; Morphological variability in wild and reared finfish juveniles. SEACASE: responsible for WP4.2, juveniles quality.	Corrado Costa: PhD, researcher in CRA-ISMA. His research work mainly deals with shape and colour analysis of fishes for quality assessment and supervised statistical analysis (PLS). SEACASE: morphological quality of juveniles and data management.
Irene Ferrante: PhD, researcher at the Department of Biology of the Univ. of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. Research on stress assessment through hematological indicators and oxidative stress monitoring in fish as a tool of both flesh quality and animal welfare assessment; fishery chain quality and certification procedures. SEACASE: Certification process.	Tommaso Russo: PhD, researcher in UTV. His current researches deal with larval ecology of fishes in basic and applied studies; New rearing techniques for domestication of new species and improvement of juveniles quality; Mathematical methods for analysis of fish growth. SEACASE: semi-intensive larval rearing.
Loredana Prestinicola: second level student. SEACASE: morphological quality of juveniles.