Adriatic Sea risks turning into a water desert
Overfishing, bottom trawling, pollution, and climate change are seriously threatening the biodiversity of the Adriatic Sea (Photo: Diane Brennan)
The Adriatic Sea risks turning into a water desert, experts warn.
Overfishing, bottom trawling, pollution, and climate change are seriously threatening the biodiversity of the Adriatic.
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Fishing vessels in Otranto, Italy. For almost three years, experts and NGOs have been calling for the establishment of a Fisheries Restricted Area (FRA) in the Strait of Otranto, between the Italian region of Puglia and Albania (Photo: Paolo Margari)
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After decades of increasing human pressures on Mediterranean and Black Sea marine ecosystems and fisheries resources, the overexploitation of the region’s fish stocks may finally be easing up, a new report from the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) suggests.
According to the FAO statutory body’s latest biennial report, “The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries,” or SoMFi 2020, while 75 percent of fish stocks remain subject to overfishing, this fell by more than 10 percent between 2014 and 2018. Exploitation ratios are also down by a similar proportion.