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Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle «Grigore Antipa» Vol. LV (1) pp. 185–191 © 31 août 2012 In memoriam DR. IOAN I. PORUMB (9 th of November 1925 – 18 th of July 2011) On the 18 th of July 2011, Dr. Ioan Porumb left us. The imposing man as a ir tree, who I never saw him complaining although he was bearing an inner pain, left us, to the surprise of his former colleagues from the Station of Marine Research from Agigea, from „Grigore Antipa” Marine Institute (ex IRCM), from other academic biological institutions or from the Romanian Naval League, institutions where he worked his entire life or collaborated actively along the years of his deserved retiring. Dr. Ioan I. Porumb was born in Iaşi, on the 9 th of November 1925, his parents being Ioan and Ana Porumb. He studied in Iaşi, at “Cuza Vodă” Primary School, then at the “Costache Negruzzi” Boarding High-School – lower classes and at “National High-School” upper classes – science section, graduating in 1944, a hard year of the war, when he did his duty for the country – the military service. Then, he dedicated to the university studies attending the courses of the Faculty of Sciences – Natural Sciences Section of the well-known “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, and in 1951 he got B.S. degree. Then he began his activity, in the beginning becoming Biology teacher at the Unique Gymnasium of Ciurea Commune – Iași county (October 1948 – February 1949), then University assistant, senior scientiic researcher, senior biologist, the chief

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Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle «Grigore Antipa»

Vol. LV (1) pp. 185–191© 31 août

2012

In memoriam

DR. IOAN I. PORUMB

(9th of November 1925 – 18th of July 2011)

On the 18th of July 2011, Dr. Ioan Porumb left us. The imposing man as a ir tree, who I never saw him complaining although he was bearing an inner pain, left us, to the surprise of his former colleagues from the Station of Marine Research from Agigea, from „Grigore Antipa” Marine Institute (ex IRCM), from other academic biological institutions or from the Romanian Naval League, institutions where he worked his entire life or collaborated actively along the years of his deserved retiring.

Dr. Ioan I. Porumb was born in Iaşi, on the 9th of November 1925, his parents being Ioan and Ana Porumb.

He studied in Iaşi, at “Cuza Vodă” Primary School, then at the “Costache Negruzzi” Boarding High-School – lower classes and at “National High-School” – upper classes – science section, graduating in 1944, a hard year of the war, when he did his duty for the country – the military service.

Then, he dedicated to the university studies attending the courses of the Faculty of Sciences – Natural Sciences Section of the well-known “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, and in 1951 he got B.S. degree.

Then he began his activity, in the beginning becoming Biology teacher at the Unique Gymnasium of Ciurea Commune – Iași county (October 1948 – February 1949), then University assistant, senior scientiic researcher, senior biologist, the chief

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of the Department of Ichthyology of the “Professor Ioan I. Borcea” Station of Marine Biology from Agigea, Constanța County (the 2nd of February 1949 – the 1st of March 1970). For a 20 years period, he was an active presence in Professor Ioan Borcea’s foundation from Agigea, where he also lived with his family – his distinguished colleague and wife, marine life scientist, Dr. Florica Porumb and their son Dan Porumb – today, a well-known specialist in electronics and telecommunications. At Agigea, at the famous station of the Romanian marine research, the small group of the young specialists gathered around Prof. Sergiu Cărăușu had the opportunity of knowing the great personalities of the Romanian biology who were coming every summer for studying different aspects of the marine lora and fauna. The young scientist Ioan Porumb directed to the study of the ish of the Black Sea. Later, he became university assistant at the Chair of Ichthyology, Physiology and Fish anatomy of the Institute of Fish and Fish-breeding of Constanța (1950-1953), which was recently founded, and after that he was researcher at the Commision of Hydrobiology of the Romanian Academy (1953-1955).

After the so called “reformation” of the Romanian marine studies in 1970, Ioan Porumb is appointed senior researcher, chief of laboratory, at the Romanian Institute of Marine Research Constanţa, which was the result of the uniication of all institutions of marine researches, including the Station of Marine Biology of Agigea (the 1st of March 1970 till his retiring, in 1988).

In 1976, under the guidance of the famous naturalist, specialist of the aquatic world, carcinologist as well as museologist, Mihai Băcescu, he got the title of Doctor in Biology (Marine biology, oceanology), at the Institute of Biology of the Romanian Academy with an important PhD thesis, entitled “Importanţa zooplanctonului în hrana unor peşti pelagici din apele românești ale Mării Negre” [“The importance of the zooplankton in the food of some pelagic ish of the Romanian waters of the Black Sea”].

The activity of the scientiic research developed in the ield of the marine biology (oceanology) and the results got by Dr. Ioan Porumb materialized in numerous reports and papers presented at national and international scientiic events. Over 50 papers were published in specialized journals from Romania and abroad, since 1958, when he published a scientiic paper on the pelagic ish of the Romanian marine waters in Analele Universității “Al. I. Cuza” [Annals of “Al. I. Cuza” University].

Together with Acad. Eugen A. E. Pora, D. Roșca, Fl. Porumb published important papers on the biology of the Mackerel of the Black Sea (1956, 1961). He dealt with the nycthermeral migration of the marine zooplankton (1966), with the Mackerel food (Trachurus mediterraneus ponticus Aleev) (1961), with the Goby biology (Gobius batracocephalus, G. cephalarges, G. melanostomus) (1961), of the Whiting (Odontogadus merlangus euxinus) (1965), Blenniidae (1968), shads (1969), sardines (Sardina pilchardus) (1969), Mochon (Atherina mochon pontica), Anchovy (Engraulis encrassicholus ponticus) (1970) etc., and alone or in collaboration he dealt with the evaluation of the stock of some ish species with an economic importance from the waters above the Romanian shelf of the Black Sea.

Most of Dr. Ioan Porumb’s scientiic communications entered the international circuit, being appreciated as papers of reference, being cited in numerous publications as:

• 1964 - Svetovidov N. A., Fish of the Black Sea (in Russian). Academy of Science of USSR, Moskva, Ed.Nauka;

• 1979 – Bases of the Biologic Productivity of the Black Sea (in Russian). Ed.Naukova Dumka, Kiev;

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• 1966-1990 – Numerous issues of the publication Rapports Commission Internationale pour l’Exploration Scientiique de la Mer Méditerranée (CIESM), Monaco;

• 1997 - Black Sea Biological Diversity, New-York;• 1995 - Black Sea Bibliography, New-York;• 1965-1985 – Numerous issues of the publication Referativnâi Jurnal, ser.

Biologie, Moskva.Fascinated by the world of ish Dr. Ioan Porumb participated to numerous

research expeditions at sea, especially in the western basin of the Black Sea.In summer 1968, he participated at a training programme of the Mediterranean

Association of Marine Biology and Oceanography (M.A.M.B.O), in Tunisia, where he explored the southern area of the Medeterranean Sea. Further on, he gained a research scholarship given by Dohrn Fundation of the Naples Zoological Station.

In 1975-1976, he participated to several long expeditions for the study of the biology of the Libyan waters and for enhancing the existing ish stock.

Under the circumstances within which Romania practiced only a passive ishing, near the shore, the results of Dr. Porumb’s studies on ish biology of the Black Sea, and particularly on the state of the ish stocks from western Black Sea, were the foundation of the decision of the ish stock evaluation by an active ishing.

Therefore, within 1970-1988 Dr. Ioan Porumb ran “The Research Programme of the Black Sea for Enhancing the Fish Stock”, thus assuring the rational character of industrialization of these food reserves.

The results of these studies became arguments for the Romanian State to enact the “The Exclusive Economic Area at the Black Sea”, by which it was underlined the exploitation right exclusively the ishing richness offshore Romanian littoral up to 200 nautical miles, according to the “International Law of the Sea Right”.

From 1970 to his retiring, in 1988, he was permanently included in the Romanian delegation for all international events regarding “The International Agreement for Fishing at the Black Sea”.

After his deserved retiring, Dr. Ioan Porumb continued to share his scientiic experience to his younger colleagues, as adviser of the Scientiic Council of the “Grigore Antipa” National Institute of Marine Research; also he was included in numerous famous professional associations, as:

• Committée International pour l’Exploration Scientiique de la mer Méditerranée [International Committee for Scientiic Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea];

• Academia Oamenilor de Știință din România [Romanian Scientists’ Academy];

• Comisia Națională UNESCO pentru Ecologie [UNESCO National Commission for Ecology];

• “Liga Navală Română” [Romanian Navy League] where he coordinated the Department of the Environment of Constanţa Branch, where he held conferences with speciic themes of his ield of competence, aiming at the young people’s education and attraction; he was member of the Editorial staff of the journal of the Romanian Navy League, “The Black Sea”, where he published regularly papers on the biology and ecology of the Black Sea.

• Soldier of the sea science front, Dr. Ioan I. Porumb was a brave soldier of his country, lieutenant-colonel of artillery veteran.

At his last departure, let’s bring a pious homage to our distinguished colleague, Dr. Ioan Porumb, man of humanity, with a high sense of duty, an impeccable attitude

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and rare modesty, famous researcher of marine ichthyology, who left us a bright memory in us, in the laboratories of the Agigea Station of Marine Biology and of the Romanian Institute of Marine Research, studying patiently and full of passion the mystery of the ish world of the Black Sea. He was a man devoted to his profession, family and society. Farwell dear colleague!

MARIAN-TRAIAN GOMOIU

Published papers

1956 – Biologia stavridului din Marea Neagră. Hrana stavridului în timpul unui sezon de pescuit (mai-

octombrie 1953). Analele Inst. Cerc. Pisc. București, 1: 187-205. (PORA, A. E., I. PORUMB, F. PORUMB, D. ROȘCA) (in Romanian)

1958 – Contributions à l’étude de la biologie des poissons pélagiques en face du littoral roumain de la mer

Noire. An. St. Univ. «AI. I. Cuza» Iași, ser. n., sect.2, 4 (1): 77-101. (PORUMB, I., F. PORUMB)

1959 – Contribution à l’étude de la biologie du tassergal (Pomatomus saltatrix) de la mer Noire. Rythme de

croissance chez les jeunes individus. Lucr. Ses. St. Stat. Cercet. Marine «Prof. I. Borcea» Agigea, Univ. «Al. I. Cuza» Iași: 511-516. (PORUMB, I., F. PORUMB)

– Contributions à l’étude de la biologie de la pélamide commune (Sarda sarda) de la mer Noire. Lucr. Ses. St. Stat. Cercet. Marine “Prof. I. Borcea” Agigea, Univ. “Al. I. Cuza” Iași: 517-526. (PORUMB, I., F. PORUMB)

1961 – Contributions à l’étude de la biologie du chinchard (Trachurus mediterraneus ponticus Aleev). La

nourriture des adultes et des jeunes; la croissance des jeunes dans les eaux roumaines. An. Univ. «AI. I. Cuza», Iași, 7 (2): 285-302.

– Contribution à la connaissance de la biologie des Gobiides (Gobius batracocephalus, G. cephalarges, G. melanostomus) du littoral roumain de la mer Noire. Hidrobiologia, București, 3: 271-282.

– Biologiya chernomorskoj stavridy. Izmenenie lipidnogo obmena v zavisimost’ ot sezona (maj-oktiabr’ 1953). Voprosy ikhtiologii, Moskva, 17: 83-91. (PORA, A. E., D. ROȘCA, I. PORUMB, F. PORUMB) (in Russian)

1965 – Contribution à la connaissance du rôle de Odontogadus merlangus euxinus (Nordmann, 1840)

dans la chaȋne trophique de la mer Noire (zone du littoral roumain). Rev. Roum. Biol., sér. zool., Edit. Acad. RSR, București, 10 (4): 281-292.

– Contribuții la cunoașterea rolului lui Odontogadus merlangus euxinus (Nordmann, 1840) în lanțul troic al Mării Negre (litoralul românesc). St. Cercet. Biol. ser. zool., Edit. Acad. RSR, Bucuresti, 17 (5): 471-483. (in Romanian)

– Recherches concernant la migration nycthémérale du zooplancton marin d’été. Rev. Roum. Biol., sér. zool., Edit. Acad. RSR, București, 10 (5): 361-371. (PORUMB, F., I. PORUMB)

1966 – Cercetări asupra migrației nictemerale a zooplanctonului marin de vară. St. Cercet. Biol., ser.

zool., Edit. Acad. RSR, Bucuresti, 18 (1): 65-75. (PORUMB, F., I. PORUMB) (in Romanian) – Contribuții la cunoașterea hranei lui Belone belone euxini din Marea Neagră. St. Cercet. BioI. ,ser.

zool., Edit. Acad. RSR, București, 18 (2): 113-118. (PORUMB, I., F. PORUMB) (in Romanian)

1968 – Beitrag zur kenntnis der Bedeutung einiger benthalen Organismen in die einiger Nahrung Blennius

Arten der Rumänischen Schwarz-Meer-Kȕste. Lucr. Ses. St. Stat. Cercet. Mar. “Prof. I. Borcea” Agigea, Univ.”Al. I. Cuza” Iași: 283-290.

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– Mya arenaria L., a bivalve recently penetrated into the Black Sea. Rev. Roum. Biol., ser. zool., Edit. Acad. RSR, București, 3: 199-202. (GOMOIU, M.-T., I. PORUMB)

– La répartition des différentes espèces de Gobies (Gobius batracocephalus, G. cephalarges, G. melanostomus) le long du littoral roumain de la mer Noire. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Méedit., CIESM, Monaco, 19 (2): 307. (PORUMB, I., F. PORUMB)

1969 – Contributions à l’étude de la biologie des Aloses du littoral roumain de la mer Noire, particulièrement

de la nourriture. Rev. Roum. Biol., sér. zool., Edit. Acad. RSR, București, 13 (6): 447-452. – Contribuții la studierea speciei Sardina pilchardus sardina. Hrănirea la litoralul românesc al Mării

Negre. Lucr. Ses. St. Stat. Cercet. Mar. „Prof. I. Borcea” Agigea, Univ. „Al. I. Cuza” Iași: 101-112. (in Romanian)

1970 – Le rôle de l’Atherina mochon pontica Eichw, 1831 dans la mise en valeur du zooplancton de la zone

néritique du littoral roumain de la mer Noire. Journées Etud Plancton, CIESM, Monaco: 130 140. – Engraulis encrassicholus ponticus, poisson de première importance comme utilisateur du

zooplancton des eaux roumaines de la mer Noire. Journees Ichtyologie, CIESM, Rome: 137-139.

1971 – Contributions à la connaissance de la biologie de Pomatomus saltator L., 1758 de la mer Noire.

Nutrition des jeunes dans les eaux du littoral roumain et l’inluence de la nutrition sur la croissance. Cercetări marine, IRCM Constanța, 2: 75-79.

1972 – Sur le rôle du zooplancton dans l’alimentation de Sprattus sprattus (Linnée, 1758) le long du

littoral roumain de la mer Noire. Cercetări marine, IRCM Constanța, 4: 95-152.

1973 – Rôle de Sprattus sprattus (Linné, 1758) dans l’utilisation du zooplancton des eaux roumaines de la

mer Noire. Revue des Travaux de l’Institut des Pêches Maritimes, 37 (2): 203-205.

1974 – Le role de Sprattus sprattus (Linné, 1758) dans l’utilisation du zooplancton des eaux roumaines de

la mer Noire. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., CIESM, Monaco, 29 (7): 49.

1975 – Importanța zooplanctonului în hrana unor pești pelagici în apele românești ale Mării Negre. PhD

thesis, Ministry of Education, Institute of Biological Sciences, București: 583 pp. (in Romanian)

1977 – Ichtyofaune de la mer Noire. Biologie des eaux saumâtres de la mer Noire (E. A. Pora & M.

Băcescu eds.). IRCM Constanța, 1: 135-140. – Base trophique et nutrition des poissons de la mer Noire. Biologie des eaux saumâtres de la mer

Noire (E. A. Pora, M. Băcescu eds.). IRCM Constanța, 2: 141-150.

1979 – Observații privind răspândirea și zonele de aglomerare ale peștilor pelagici cu importanță

economică din apele de larg din dreptul litoralului românesc al Mării Negre. Sesiunea științiică jubiliară, Fac. Tehn. chimia prod. alim. tehnica pescuitului, Galați, 4: 365 373. (PORUMB, I., A. COCIAȘU,) (in Romanian)

– Inluence du facteur nourriture sur la formation des agglomérations d’anchois dans la zone néritique roumaine de la mer Noire. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., CIESM, Monaco, 25-26 (10): 47-48. (PORUMB, I., F. MARINESCU)

– La nourriture du chinchard de la mer Noire. Le chinchard de la mer Noire (Trachurus mediterraneus ponticus). Etude monographique (E. A. Pora ed.), IRCM Constanța, 2: 549-611. (PORUMB, I., F. PORUMB)

– Date privind evaluarea rezervelor câtorva specii cu importanță economică din apele de deasupra platformei continentale românești la Marea Neagră. Sesiunea științiică jubiliară, Fac.Tehn. și chimia prod. alim. și tehnica pescuitului, Galați, 4: 251-261. (PORUMB, I., F. MARINESCU, A. GORBAN, G. BUTOI) (in Romanian)

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1980 – Opinii privind viitorul pescuitului oceanic. In: M. Malița (ed.), Viitorul mărilor și oceanelor. Edit.

Acad., București: 81-94. (IORDĂNESCU, V., N. PAPADOPOL, I. PORUMB) (in Romanian) – Aspecte privind perspectivele dezvoltării economiei pescărești la Marea Neagră. In: M. Malița

(ed), Viitorul mărilor și oceanelor. Edit. Acad. RSR, București: 174-183. (PORUMB, I., V. IORDĂNESCU, N. PAPADOPOL) (in Romanian)

1981 – Données préliminaires concernant la reproduction du sprat (Sprattus sprattus) dans les eaux de

la plate-forme continentale roumaine de la mer Noire. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., CIESM, Monaco, 27 (5): 77-97. (PORUMB, I., A. GORBAN)

– Structure des reproducteurs d’Alosa pontica dans les eaux roumaines. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., CIESM, Monaco, 27 (5): 69-71. (PORUMB, I., F. MARINESCU, a)

– Structure des populations de Sprattus sprattus dans les eaux néritiques roumaines de la mer Noire. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., CIESM, Monaco, 27 (5): 73-75. (PORUMB, I., F. MARINESCU, b)

– Structure des populations d’anchois (Engraulis encrassicholus ponticus) dans les eaux néritiques roumaines de la mer Noire. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., CIESM, Monaco, 27 (5): 81-82. (PORUMB, I., F. MARINESCU, c)

– Composition par âges des bancs de Trachurus mediterraneus ponticus sur Ie littoral roumain de la mer Noire. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., CIESM, Monaco, 27 (5): 87-89. (PORUMB, I., F. MARINESCU, d)

– Variations de la composition de l’ichtyofaune pélagique dans la pêche roumaine de la mer Noire. Rapp.Comm.int.Mer Médit., CIESM, Monaco, 27 (5): 83-85. (PORUMB, I., F. MARINESCU, G. BUTOI)

– Répartition saisonnière du sprat dans les eaux roumaines de la mer Noire. Cercetări marine, IRCM Constanța, 14: 159-178. (PORUMB, I., I. BUTOI., F. MARINESCU, G. BUTOI)

1982 – Base trophique zooplanctonique et son importance pour la répartition et la nutrition du sprat dans

les eaux devant le littoral roumain de la mer Noire. Cercetări marine, IRCM Constanța, 15: 69-88. (PORUMB, F., I. PORUMB)

1983 – Importance du zooplancton pour la répartition des poissons pélagiques dans les eaux du plateau

continental devant le littoral roumain de la mer Noire. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., CIESM, Monaco, 28 (5): 147-148. (PORUMB, F., I. PORUMB)

1984 – Ressources piscicoles des eaux du plateau continental roumain de la mer Noire et la perspective

de leur mise en valeur. Cercetări marine, IRCM Constanța, 17: 165-175. (PORUMB, I., V. IORDĂNESCU)

1985 – Eficience de la transformation de l’énergie dans l’ecosystème pélagique devant le littoral roumain

de la mer Noire. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., CIESM, Monaco, 29 (8): 125-126. (PORUMB, F., I. PORUMB)

1994-1995 – Introduction dans l’étude de l’ichtyofaune de la mer Noire. Cercetări marine, IRCM Constanța,

27-28: 263-295.

1996 – Les poissons, la principale ressource des eaux roumaines de la mer Noire. Evolution et exploitation

de leurs stocks. Ses. St. „Marea Neagră în cumpănă”, Agigea-Constanța 18-20 oct. 1996, Univ. „Al. I. Cuza” Iași: 55-64.

1996-1997 – In memoriam Prof. Univ. SERGIU CARĂUȘU. Cercetări marine, IRCM Constanța, 29-30: 521-

527.

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1998 – Situația ecologică actuală a Mării Negre și implicațiile în compoziția ichtiofaunei și pescuitului

românesc. Marea noastră, LNR Constanța, 28: 6-7. (in Romanian)

1999 – Și în Marea Neagră sunt pești veninoși. Marea noastră, LNR Constanța, 31: 17. (in Romanian)

2000 – Tradiție prin continuitate, 1970-2000. Marea Noastră, LNR Constanța, 37: 16. (PAPADOPOL, N.

C., I. PORUMB) (in Romanian) – Academicianul doctor docent MIHAI C. BĂCESCU. Marea noastră, LNR Constanța, 1 (34): 24-

25. (PORUMB, I., F. PORUMB) (in Romanian)