Progress towards ending overfishing in the Northeast Atlantic

• Main Authors: Froese, Rainer, Tsikliras, Athanassios C., Scarcella, Giuseppe, Gascuel, Didier
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: GEOMAR 2019
• Subjects: Tac; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47862/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47862/2/B_F_NEA_3.pdf; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47862/1/NEA_Stocks_2018.zip

The reformed Common Fisheries Policy of the EU, in force since 2014, stipulates that overfishing by the fleets of its member states has to end latest in the year 2020. This study examines exploitation and status of 119 stocks fished by 20 countries in the Northeast Atlantic. In the year 2018, about...