Small-Scale Fisheries in Greece: Status, Problems, and Management

Tzanatos, Evangelos; Georgiadis, Michalis; Peristeraki, Panagiota

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37371-9_7

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“…Coastal fishery has not been linked to the recruitment of young fishers, because of decreased incomes from fishing stemming from declining catches (INSTAT 2020), and, thus, they are reluctant to take up commercial fisheries, which explains the chronic shortage of young people in the European fishing industry (Eurofish Magazine 2018). Another important issue is that Mediterranean coastal fishery is not gender balanced, but male dominant (Greece: Tzanatos et al 2020, Italy: Battaglia et al 2010, Spain: Frangoudes et al 2008, Villasante et al 2019, Turkey: Birkan and Öndes 2020. Social norms in certain fisheries place the responsibility for generating income on men, while women engage in household duties (Biswas 2018), although women do play crucial roles in many lagoons often through unpaid labor (Kraak 2020, Theodorou et al 2022.…”

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Fisheries assessment of the Albanian lagoon fisheries

Bakiu

Beqiri

Konomi

et al. 2022

Fisheries &Amp; Aquatic Life

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The present study uses fisher knowledge to outline the basic socio-economic framework of Albanian lagoon fisheries based on on-the-spot interviews conducted with fishers operating in the most important Albanian lagoons. The results indicated that Albanian lagoon fisheries were family-based, with spatial differences observed in vessels from the northern lagoon that were older, larger in size, with more powerful engines, and involved more persons in comparison with corresponding vessels from the southern lagoon. The results also indicated that lagoon fisheries were in decline, ageing fishers, and encountering problems with illegal fishery and invasive species. Most of the fishers were aware that protected areas existed in Albanian waters, whereas severe contradictions among fishers existed about the need to establish new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). An aggravating factor that threatened the viability of the lagoon fisheries and coastal ecosystems was high incidental catches of the Blue crab, Callinectes sapidus. These issues revealed the increased marginalization of the Albanian lagoon fisheries that might be able to be generalized beyond this case study to other Mediterranean lagoons. The present work also highlighted the need to establish a decent stratified statistical survey to monitor the highly complex nature of lagoon fisheries.

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Fisheries assessment of the Albanian lagoon fisheries

Bakiu

Beqiri

Konomi

et al. 2022

Fisheries &Amp; Aquatic Life

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“…In addition, 17.6% of these women were reported as captains. However, the reliability of this statistic was questioned, as, in many cases, women were only the officially registered and not the actual owners/captains, especially when their husbands were not eligible for an individual professional fishing license [47]. To our knowledge, there is no similar research into fisheries to compare our results.…”

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Unravelling the Role of Gender in Fisheries’ Socio-Economic Performance: The Case of Greek Small-Scale Fisheries

Liontakis¹,

Tzouramani²,

Mantziaris³

et al. 2020

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Small-scale fisheries account for 94% of the Greek fishing fleet. The sector consists mainly of family-owned vessels and highly depends on family labor. While the role of women as crew members is of particular interest, there is little evidence of their actual employment status, labor situation, and contribution in the fishing activity. This paper focuses on women in small-scale fisheries in order to investigate their role in the sector and reveal their contribution to fishing enterprises. In addition, it implements a comparative analysis to investigate the differences in various socio-economic indicators in small-scale vessels with and without female crew members. The results indicate that the presence of women has a positive outcome on several social and economic indicators that reflect the wealth of both fishing households and employees. In terms of employment, several differences in the structural characteristics appeared regarding the onshore employment, the share of unpaid labor, and the total hours worked. The majority of female crew members can be characterized as “fisherwomen,” since fishing is their main occupation. Further in-depth research to investigate the family relations among crew members and how they affect the fishing enterprise can supplement the existing research.

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“…The advantage of hierarchical clustering, when compared with other methods (Principal Component Analysis, Principal Coordination Analysis), is that it is based on subjective criteria (e.g., Biseau, 1998;Deporte et al, 2012). SSFs in Albanian waters exhibited a diversification of fishing tactics, similar to other Mediterranean small-scale fisheries (Tzanatos et al, 2020;Forcada et al, 2010;Grati et al, 2018) triggered by changing conditions in terms of both environmental and market variability, and the availability of the resources. Cluster analyses indicated that the fishing gear (and, to a lesser extent, season and/or depth) strongly affects fishing tactics.…”

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Typology of the Albanian Small-Scale Fisheries

Bakiu

Moutopoulos

Gurma

et al. 2022

Croatian Journal of Fisheries

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The lack of reliable fisheries statistics hampers full assessment of the status of marine resources. Central to this problem are data-poor fisheries such as the Albanian seas and in particular the SSF sector. The present study aims to portray the small-scale fishery of south Albanian waters based on daily onboard monitoring of fisheries species catches during a two-year period (2016-2018). Results revealed a total of 6 and 11 fishing métiers for the nets and longlines, respectively. The most important target species for nets in terms of catches were Merluccius merluccius, Mullus surmuletus, Pagellus erythrinus, Sepia officinalis and Solea vulgaris. Longline fisheries were categorized into two distinct fishing métiers, one targeting the large pelagics Thunnus thynnus and Xiphias gladius, and the other targeting a wide range of Sparidae species and Epinephelus marginatus. The data and analysis presented here aim to reduce the current lack of quantitative data on a fisheries data-limited case such as the Albanian small-scale fishery and to provide information for developing monitoring for this fishery.

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Small-Scale Fisheries in Greece: Status, Problems, and Management

Cited by 12 publications

References 42 publications

Fisheries assessment of the Albanian lagoon fisheries

Fisheries assessment of the Albanian lagoon fisheries

Unravelling the Role of Gender in Fisheries’ Socio-Economic Performance: The Case of Greek Small-Scale Fisheries

Typology of the Albanian Small-Scale Fisheries

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