The Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) estimated in a report made public on Thursday 11 April that “many [fish] stocks” remain overexploited or outside safe biological limits. 40% of stocks are reported to be overfished in the Atlantic and more than 80% in the Mediterranean.
In its latest annual report on the monitoring of the performance of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), STECF points out that progress up to 2017 “seems too slow for all stocks to...