Illegal Driftnetting in the Mediterranean
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Swordfish is a quintessential Mediterranean dish and one that thousands of Britons will tuck into as they holiday in the region every summer, but as the report, “Illegal Driftnetting in the Mediterranean” reveals illegal driftnets, which have a devastating on the Mediterranean’s marine wildlife, are being used to catch swordfish.
Driftnets, ostensibly banned from the Mediterranean by both the European Union and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT), continue to be used illegally across the region to catch valuable large pelagic species, mainly swordfish and tuna.
Up to one-quarter of Mediterranean swordfish are caught using illegal driftnets, which were banned from global use in the early 1990s. Known as ‘walls of death’ because of their devastating impact on non-target marine species such as whales, dolphins, turtles, sharks and seabirds, these nets can be tens of miles long and continue to be used by an estimated 600 vessels from Italy, France, Morocco and Turkey.
2007
24 pages
Format A4
ISBN No. 1-904523-11-0
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