Barreiros, J.P. (2015) Overall impact of local and recreational fisheries: approaching the case in the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean. Progressive Engineering Practices in Marine Resource Management (ed. by I. Zlateva, V. Raykov and N. Nikolov), 327-347. IGI Global Publishers, Hershey, USA. DOI:10.4018/978-1-4666-8333-4.ch010.
This chapter presents and discuss updated information related to fishing in the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean from a perspective that focuses on three main interchangeable and multidisciplinary issues: a) local/artisanal fisheries, b) recreational fishing and c) marine protected areas. A comprehensive introduction is followed by an updated literature review. Full text available by request from the author. Perspectives and solutions show that recreational and artisanal fisheries are clearly understudied and possibly have several impacts that are being unmeasured and often unknown. Another major issue is the lack of a serious long term European compromise to standardize these fisheries since a strong political interference does dominate the whole issue. No solution is possible without knowledge. No knowledge is possible if countries within the Mediterranean basin and NE Atlantic are not strongly and apolitically committed to a wider research scale with the overall interest of small fisheries sustainability and maintenance of healthy stocks as a major goal.
João Pedro da Silva Ramos Barreiros Island Marine Biology
