The Commission proposed a multi-annual plan for the fisheries exploiting demersal stocks in the western Mediterranean. The supporting Impact Assessment (IA) did not provide enough details on the socio-economic impacts of the plan in the countries affected by the proposal. The complementary IA ai...
The Arctic region undergoes major pressures from climate variability. Its major manifestations are the increase in temperature and decrease in sea ice coverage and volume, with associated variability in ocean and atmosphere circulation. Warming and ice melting might also open up economic opportu...
This report presents advice and discussions about a fishing effort regime for demersal fisheries in the western Mediterranean Sea. It constitutes a complementary and updated approach to that presented in April 2018....
This study presents an identification of the likely stocks that could act as choke stocks under the landing obligation to be fully implemented in 2019 for South Western Atlantic Waters. The study provides an estimation of the likely surplus/deficit quota by stock, Member State and EU level. It a...
This background note has been drafted for the delegation visit of the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries to Thailand from 31 October to 6 November 2016. This briefing contains information on the Thailand legal and institutional framework, the fisheries resource control and management, ...
Size spectrum ecological models have emerged as a conceptually simple way to model a large community of individuals which grow and change trophic level during their lives. They are a subset of physiologically structured models where growth (and thus maturation) is food dependent, and processes a...
The purpose of the study is to provide Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries with a clear description of the North Sea Brown Shrimp (Crangon crangon) fisheries and markets in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. The survey is conceived as an information document. It addres...
