More than half of the species marketed are now exploited in a sustainable manner, according to an assessment of IFREMER, but the degradation of environmental conditions continues to affect fisheries resources.
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Less overfishing in France: The way the boats draw in the fisheries resources they land in the metropolitan ports generally tend to lower them. According to the French Sea Research Institute (Ifremer), more than half (56%) of the commercialized species are now exploited in a sustainable way, whether in good State or in the reconstitution phase.
It is difficult to compare one-year results on the other because the evaluation criteria change and are revised at each new calculation. But finally, in the long term, ifremer indicates that the number of inventories – that is, adults present in a given marine zone – solicited excessively “has fallen sharply”, from 52 to 22 between 2000 and 2020 , while those in good condition or possibly reconstructing increased from 15 to 63 at the same time. But its halieves emit a flat and point that the pace of improvements has slowed since the decade 2010. There is no need for anything to triumph if we remember that in 2013, the European Union (EU) Fixed collectively a 100% durable fishing in 2020.
But 10% of the landed volumes come from inventories that collapse, and this share increases. The Gulf of Gulf of Gulf counts for many in this result: it declines as its cousin of the Mediterranean, become smaller and much more rare. The cod of the northern and Celtic seas also collapses, as well as the Mélult of the Mediterranean. Yet the alarm has been sounded for years for this mediterranean fish very poorly in point. The sealed fishing restriction area put in place in the Gulf of the Lion did not give him help, unlike what happened successfully in Italy. On the west facade, the sole is also overwhelmed; That of the Gulf of Gascony even ranks a notch below, in the “overfulched and degraded” category. The situation of the Chinchard of the Atlantic is straightened, it is no longer considered “collapsed” but as “restorable”, like the bar of the North Sea and the Channel.
A complex exercise
Among the stocks considered in “good condition”, the Ifremer counts on the west facade, from the North Sea to the Gulf of Gaudcogne, the Santiac Shells of the Channel, the Baudroes, Merlans, the Gamine And the merilles. While in the Mediterranean the red tuna remains classified in the category “In Reconstitution” as long as data still lacks about it. Overall, “it is a significant improvement, certainly due to a greater selectivity of fishing gear and a better respect for quotas,” says Alain Beau, researcher at IFREMER and responsible for to present this report released for the fourth consecutive year.
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