Reconstructed Greek fisheries data reveals long-term recession, not recovery, from 1950 to 2022
This study presents an updated, spatially disaggregated reconstruction of Greek marine fisheries catches in the Aegean and eastern Ionian Seas from 1950 to 2022. It addresses long-standing issues of underreporting, taxonomic inconsistencies, and exclusion of discards, small-scale, and recreational catches in official Greek fisheries data. The findings indicate that Greek fisheries have experienced a recession rather than recovery, challenging official narratives and providing crucial data for ecosystem-based fisheries management and policy decisions.
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Reliable fisheries catch data are essential for robust stock assessments, ecosystem modelling, and the testing of ecological hypotheses, thereby informing policy decisions that support sustainable ecosystem-based fisheries management.
Official Greek marine fisheries data have long suffered from underreporting, taxonomic inconsistencies, and the exclusion of discards, small-scale, and recreational catches.
This study presents an updated, spatially disaggregated reconstruction of Greek marine fisheries catches in the Aegean and eastern Ionian Seas from 1950 to 2022.
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