The Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries at Risk from Overexploitation

The Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries at Risk from Overexploitation

The status of the Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries was evaluated for the period 1970-2010 on a subarea basis, using various indicators including the temporal variability of total landings, the number of recorded stocks, the mean trophic level of the catch, the fishing-in-balance index and the catch-based method of stock classification. All indicators confirmed that the fisheries resources ...

Unsustainability and Overexploitation in Fisheries

Dynamic patterns of overexploitation in fisheries

Understanding overfishing and regulating fishing quotas is a major global challenge for the 21st Century both in terms of providing food for humankind and to preserve the oceans' ecosystems. However, fishing is a complex economic activity, affected not just by overfishing but also by such factors as pollution, technology, financial factors and more. For this reason, it is often difficult to sta...

Mediterranean Sea: A Failure of the European Fisheries Management System

North East Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea fisheries are governed by the European Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Despite the fact that both areas are managed under the same broad fishery management system, a large discrepancy in management performance occurs, with recent considerable improvement of stock status witnessed in the North East Atlantic and a rapidly deteriorating situation in the...

Fisheries Management in the Black Sea—Pros and Cons

About 85% of the Mediterranean and Black Sea stocks assessed are fished at biologically unsustainable levels (FAO, 2016). The experience of EU fisheries management is unique in its scope and ambition, in that it represents the only example of reconciling the concerns of a variety of coastal countries and eco-regions with diverse, if not divergent, interests into a Common Fisheries Policy, the C...