Affiliation: Laboratory of Ichthyology & Marine Fisheries at the Institute of Marine Biology

Ilija Ćetković was born on August 11, 1994 in Kotor (Montenegro). He graduated in biology at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics of the University of Montenegro in 2017, and finished his master’s and PhD studies in the same field and university. He has been employed as a research assistant in the Laboratory of Ichthyology and Marine Fisheries at the Institute of Marine Biology (Kotor, Montenegro) since April 2017. Although he participates in various projects and studies related to fisheries management and monitoring, his primary research interest concerns the biology, ecology and by-catch monitoring of elasmobranchs. He is the author or co-author of several research papers related to these vertebrates, which mainly describe their status and occurrence in the waters of Montenegro (Southeastern Adriatic Sea).