Can Mediterranean cephalopod stocks be managed at MSY by 2020? The Balearic Islands as a case study
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Abstract According to the Common Fisheries Policy ( CFP ), all European fish stocks should be brought to a state where they can produce at MSY by 2015 wherever possible or by 2020 at the latest. Despite the high socio‐economical importance of cephalopods in the Mediterranean and the increased availability of stock assessments during the recent past, only few European cephalopod stocks have been assessed to date. Surplus production models were applied to analyse the exploitation state of octopus and cuttlefish stocks from the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean) to estimate how far away they were from the MSY target established by the CFP using a long‐term data series (1977–2013). The stocks were overexploited (cuttlefish) or about to be overexploited (octopus) during the late 1970s; this state remains even now and will only recover from overexploitation by 2020 if severe measures are taken.
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“Along with its high value, extensive exploitation is poised to negatively impact this group, with some populations exhibiting signs of depletion (Quetglas et al., 2015).”
Background
- Authors
- Quetglas, A., Keller, S., & Massutí, E.
- Affiliations
- Instituto Español de Oceanografía (ES)
- Instituto Español de Oceanografía Centre Oceanogràfic de les Balears Palma de Mallorca Spain
- Corresponding author
- Quetglas, A.
- Venue
- Fisheries Management and Ecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-09-18
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 349-358
- ISSN
- 0969-997X (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2400
- OpenAlex
- W1928203909
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 6 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 1.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Fisheries Management and Ecology (publishedVersion)
- DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (289257)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Marine and fisheries research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Keywords
- maximum sustainable yield, octopus, cuttlefish, Balearic Islands, Common Fisheries Policy, stock assessment, surplus production model, overexploitation, fisheries management, stock recovery
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