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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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

11. CFP compliance
by Ecoregion

12. 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 Exploitation and status of European stocks. World Wide Web electronic publication,