Capital: Rome
Population: 59 million (2008 est.)
Monetary unit: 1 Euro (EUR) = 100 Cents
GDP: € 1.392,5 trillion (2007 est.)
GDP/capita: € 23.661 (2007 est.)
Major language: Italian
Major religion: Roman Catholic
Life expectancy: 76,8 years (men), 82,9 years (women)
Main exports: Machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, clothes, food stuff
Average annual income: €23.851 (World Bank, 2006)
International dialing code: +39
Internet domain: .it
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Useful Links for Italy

News
• Life in Italy
www.lifeinitaly.com

Fisheries
• Ministero delle Politiche Agricole e Forestali
www.politicheagricole.it
• Capitaneria di Porto – Guardia Costiera
www.guardiacostiera.it
• Lega Pesca – National Association of Fishery Cooperatives
www.legapesca.it
• Federcoopesca
www.federcoopesca.it
• Associazione Generale Cooperative della Pesca
www.agcipesca.it
• Associazione Piscicoltori Italiani
www.api-online.it
• IREPA ONLUS, Istituto di Ricerche Economiche per la Pesca e l’Acquacultura
www.irepa.org
• ISMEA fishing and aquaculture
www.pesca.ismea.it
• Central Institute for Marine Research
www.icram.org
• Italian National Research Council
www.cnr.it
• National Institute of Statistics
www.istat.it
• Italian Society of Marine Biology
www.sibm.unige.it
• Centro Interuniversitario di Biologia Marina, Livorno
www.cibm.it
• University of Genoa: DIP. TE.RIS. Dipartimento per lo studio del territorio e delle sue risorse
www.dister.unige.it
• University of Rome “La Sapienza” Department of Animal and Human Biology
www.dipbau.bio.uniroma1.it/web/index.htm
• University of Bari: Department of Zoology
www.zoologia.uniba.it
• Marine Biology Laboratory of Fano
www.mobilia.it/lbmpfano
• Marine Biology Laboratory of Bari
www.teseo.it/biologia.marina
• University of Rome Tor Vergata, Department of Biology
www.uniroma2.it/biologia

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