Why Europe’s Fisheries Management Needs a Rethink

Fishing Expedition in the Western Baltic Sea

GEOMAR researchers identify systemic weaknesses in EU fisheries management and are calling for quotas to be set independently of national interests 22 May 2025/Kiel. Every year, total allowable catches (TACs) and fishing quotas are set across Europe through a multi-step process – and yet many fish stocks in EU waters…

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Intensification of data collection and research efforts crucial to effectively manage non-fish marine organisms of European Seas

Addressing data gaps and increasing research efforts on non-fish marine organisms are crucially needed to gain a deeper scientific understanding and more effective management of the European seas, new research has found. In a new paper published in the journal ‘Frontiers in Marine Science’, an international team of researchers led…

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Ecosystem-based fisheries management restores western Baltic fish stocks

Marine scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany), the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN, Germany) and the Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources at the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy teamed up to test and predict how different marine life in the…

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