Status and Exploitation of European Fish Stocks Rainer Froese, GEOMAR 14 November 2016 Brussels, Belgium

Outside safe biological limits The MSY Framework High biomass High profit High catch Overfishing CFP 2013 Recovering Outside safe biological limits

European Stocks in 2013-2015 ◄ Management Decision ► ◄ F & Reproduction & Growth ► Analysis of 397 stocks in European Seas and adjacent waters. Froese et al. 2016.

Exploitation of 397 stocks in European Seas in 2013-2015 Exploitation of 397 stocks in European Seas in 2013-2015. Note overlapping of different types of overexploitation, and therefore the numbers do not add up to 100%. Froese et al. 2016

Status of 397 stocks in European Seas. Froese et al. 2016

Reducing Fishing Pressure to Fmsy by 2015 Example: North Sea Analysis of 45 stocks in the North Sea. Froese et al. 2016

Stocks with CFP-compliant Fishing Pressure Analysis of 397 stocks in European Seas Froese et al. 2016

Stocks with CFP-compliant Stock Size Analysis of 397 stocks in European Seas Froese et al. 2016

Analysis of current (2013 -2015) and potential catches for 397 stocks in European Seas. Because of trophic interactions, all stocks cannot support maximum yields simultaneously. Froese et al. 2016.

Conclusions The Common Fisheries Policy sets the correct goal of rebuilding stocks above levels that can produce MSY An analysis of all European stocks shows that the goal of sustainable exploitation by 2015 has been missed by a large margin Therefore, there is no visible trend of rebuilding in European fish stocks However, sustainable catches can be 5 MT (57%) higher if stocks have been rebuilt

CFP compliance by Ecoregion

Froese, R. , Garilao, C. , Winker, H. , Coro, G. , Demirel, N Froese, R., Garilao, C., Winker, H., Coro, G., Demirel, N., Tsikliras, A., Dimarchopoulou, D., Scarcella, G., Sampang-Reyes, A. 2016. Exploitation and status of European stocks. World Wide Web electronic publication, http://oceanrep.geomar.de/34476/