Editorial: Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Seas - Advances in Research and Technologies

摘要

The ecosystem approach for fisheries management is a widely accepted concept and has recentlybeen developed to address the failures of traditional fisheries management practices (Morishita,2008). Various international instruments require its application, improving on single-speciesfisheries. There is an increasing realization of the importance of species-to-species interactions,genetic tools for fishery stock structure determination, and defining stock boundaries to underpinsustainable fishery management. Thus, ecosystem models play strategic roles by providing anecosystem context for single-species management decisions. Moreover, tactical ecosystem modelscan respond dynamically to any ecological and environmental variations. For example, to respondto the lack of comprehensive information about fishing activity catch quantities and composition,and how they affect the current state of Black Sea fish stocks (Raykov and Bikarska, 2011).The studies included in this Research Topic provide novel sources of information forMediterranean and Black Sea fisheries, spanning from mass-balance models to new fishingtechnologies that reduce bycatch of non-target species.