WWF calls on GFCM to recover Mediterranean fish stocks
fishupdate.com | 13 May 2013
As the organisation opens its annual meeting in Croatia, WWF has called on the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) to urgently adopt a first set of comprehensive management plans, in particular in the Adriatic, to guarantee the sustainable exploitation of key Mediterranean fish stocks.
 Mediterranean Sea | Fisheries | Marine Management

Using no-take marine reserves as a tool for evaluating rocky-reef fish resources in the western Medi...
Oxford Journals | 12 Apr 2013
ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70: 578–590.The use of MPAs to recover fish stocks in littoral areas of the western Mediterranean has made it possible to obtain time dataseries on the biomass evolution over the last decade. The biomass of six fully protected MPAs increased between two- and threefold over a period of five years. After this time the biomass remained stable.
 Mediterranean Sea | Fish | Marine Protected Area | Research

Mediterranean and Black Sea sharks risk extinction
World Fishing | 20 Mar 2013
A new FAO study has found that shark populations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea have dropped dramatically over the last two centuries and now risk extinction if current fishing pressure continues.
 Mediterranean Sea | Fish | Fisheries

Spanish sperm whale death linked to UK supermarket supplier's plastic
Guardian Unlimited | 08 Mar 2013
A dead sperm whale that washed up on Spain's south coast had swallowed 17kg of plastic waste dumped into the sea by farmers tending greenhouses that produce tomatoes and other vegetables for British supermarkets. Scientists were amazed to find the 4.5 tonne whale had swallowed 59 different bits of plastic - most of it thick transparent sheeting used to build greenhouses in southern Almeria and Granada.
 Mediterranean Sea

Synchronous combined effects of fishing and climate within a demersal community
Oxford Journals | 20 Feb 2013
Accumulating evidence shows that fishing exploitation and environmental variables can synergistically affect the population dynamics of exploited populations. Here, we document an interaction between fishing impact and climate variability that triggered a synchronic response in the population fluctuations of six exploited species in the Mediterranean from 1965–2008.
 Mediterranean Sea | Demersal Zone | Fish | Fisheries

Gloria Maris certified sustainable
World Fishing | 12 Feb 2013
Gloria Maris' aquaculture farm, on the French island of Corsica, has been certified sustainable by international certification body, Friend of the Sea.
 Mediterranean Sea | Aquaculture | Fish Farming | Seafood Certification

Oceana to send illegal fishing evidence to the EU
fishupdate.com | 30 Jan 2013
Oceana says it will send to the EU evidence found of illegal fishing activity in the area surrounding Cabrera and south Majorca, filing a claim against Spain for breach of the' Council Regulation (EC) No. 1967/2006 for management of fishery resources in the Mediterranean Sea.
 Mediterranean Sea | Fisheries | Habitat Loss

State approves drilling for oil in area earmarked as marine nature reserve
haaretz.com | 15 Jan 2013
The Tel Aviv District Planning Committee approved on Monday a plan to conduct experimental drilling in a search for oil some 19 kilometers off the coast from the Herzliya marina - in the very site Israel has proposed as a marine nature reserve.
 Mediterranean Sea | Governance | Marine Protected Area | Offshore Resources

Lebanon moves forward to protect marine habitats
IUCN | 14 Jan 2013
Lebanon's Ministry of Environment and IUCN with the support of partners such as the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas and UN Development Programme have brought forward a Marine Protected Areas Strategy aimed at achieving a healthy, productive, and biologically diverse marine environment in Lebanese waters.
 Mediterranean Sea | Conservation | Marine Protected Area

WWF hales EU fisheries reform success in paving the way for recovery of bluefin tuna
fishupdate.com | 22 Nov 2012
For the first time this year, one of the most threatened fish in the World, the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Bluefin tuna could be now on the right track of recovery, says WWF, thanks to decision makers deciding to stick to scientific advice when fishing quotas from 2013, following the recent ICCAT.
 Atlantic Ocean | Mediterranean Sea | Conservation | Fisheries