Impact o f bo tto m -tra w le d gears in tw o European marine regions
Stamoulis A n to n io s '23, Vassiliki V assilopoulou2, Els Torreele1and Adriaan D. R ijnsdorp34
1 Anim al Sciences Unit - Fisheries , Institute fo r A g ricu ltu ra l and Fisheries Research (ILVO),
A nkerstraat 1, 8400 Oostende, Belgium
E-mail: antonios.stam oulis@ ilvo.vlaanderen.be
2 He I le nie Centre fo r Marine Research, Agios Kosmas Helleniko, 16777, Athens, Greece
3 Wageningen University, Aquaculture and Fisheries group, PO Box 338, 6700 Ahi Wageningen,
the Netherlands
4 Wageningen IMARES, Institute fo r Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies, PO Box 68, 1970 AB
Umuiden, the Netherlands.
Fisheries m anagem ent, m ainly focused on single species, is s h iftin g to an Ecosystem Approach to
Management (EAM). Its objective is to sustain healthy ecosystems and the fisheries th ey support.
Marine capture fisheries o f the EU Members States are all managed by the Com m on Fisheries Policy
(CFP) but fo r each region d iffe re n t regulations may apply. Our study focuses on demersal fisheries
in tw o European marine regions w ith d iffe re n t ecosystem and m anagem ent characteristics, the
North Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean. Our aim is to develop and use a suite o f d iffe re n t types o f
generic indicators applicable to d iffe re n t ecosystems and fisheries, to su pp ort EAM. Flere we review
both the ecological com ponents th a t appear to be affected in each region by the fish in g practices
th a t ta rg et dem ersal resources. Then, by developing appropriate scenarios using environm ental and
socio-econom ic indicators we expect to co ntribu te tow ards building a state o f the art m ethodology
in line w ith applying an EAM.
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