Challenges include the landings obligation for demersal quota species, moves towards multi-species, multi-annual and eco-system management plans, data shortages on many stocks, increasing competition for space on the seas and seabed, regionalisation of the CFP.
Climate change and its effects on the oceans will also be likely to pose challenges for fisheries managers as the seas warm and species move to different areas.
Speakers spelled out in detail the history and current state of play on EU fisheries management at the Buckland Colloquium held in London in June.
