Progress towards ending overfishing in the Northeast Atlantic

• Published in: Marine Policy
• Main Authors: Froese, Rainer, Tsikliras, Athanassios C., Scarcella, Giuseppe, Gascuel, Didier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021
• Subjects: Tac; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/51021/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/51021/7/MarPol_EU_Fishing_2021.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104282

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...