Journal
FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 25-38Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2010.00764.x
Keywords
biomass removal; fishery management; Ionian Sea; Mediterranean Sea; overfishing
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- UNEP's Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC-SPA)
- Pew Institute for Ocean Science
- OceanCare
- Earthwatch Institute
- WDCS - The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
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P>The impact of fisheries within a Natura 2000 area in western Greece was assessed over a 12-month period in 2007. The estimated total biomass removed annually by 307 fishing boats averaged 3503.5 t. Purse seiners, beach seiners and trawlers took 70% of the total landings. Purse seiners, contributing 3% of the total fishing fleet, were responsible for 33% of total biomass removed. Beach and purse seiners primarily caught small pelagic species, whereas trawlers and trammel netters mostly demersal species. A mismatch was found between the Common Fisheries Register (CFR) and an in situ assessment of the active fishing fleet; the number of industrial fishing boats exceeded those registered in CFR for the three administrative ports involved, and a large proportion of the CFR netters were small and effectively inactive. Fishery management measures for the recovery of an ecosystem considerably damaged by overfishing are proposed.
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