How Can We Reduce the Overexploitation of the Mediterranean Resources?

Based on the characteristics of fishing sector (multispecies and multi-gears) stock status main resources (overfishing overexploitation), some suggestions to improve sustainability demersal small pelagic fisheries in Mediterranean are proposed. In exploiting single or few species, such as pelagics deep-water red shrimps, adoption a management system based catch quota approaches is suggested. case mixed species with very different biological traits, it proposed reduce effort level corresponding lower range “pretty good yield” target while improving most sensitive associated adopting technical measures mitigate mortality. The feasibility briefly discussed, taking into account levels development countries.