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18th Apr 13

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Greece

 The fisheries sector in Greece is considered important for the national economy, despite its small contribution to GDP (around 0.3-0.4%), because it helps to maintain the economic and social cohesion of many coastal areas and the Aegean and Ionian islands. Shore fishing continues to be one of the most important economic and social activities in coastal areas, where fishing and tourism support each other. Approximately 38,000 people are employed in the fishing sector.

The fishing industry consists of over 17,000 professional fishing vessels including trawlers, purse seines, beach seines, surface longliners, gill-netters and bottom longliners.

In the Aegean fisheries, the main catch of the coastal fleet is brown shrimp during spring and early summer, and cuttlefish and octopus in the winter. Purse seiners focus on anchovy and sardine. Trawlers operating in the winter catch mainly red mullet, hake, octopus, prawn, shrimp and crayfish. Greek vessels also fish for bluefin tuna further afield in the Mediterranean.

Greece is one of seven EU member states against which the European Commission has started infringement procedures for failing to send tuna catch reports data to the Commission, and for showing a lack of obligation and responsibility to the bluefin tuna recovery plan agreed by ICCAT in 2006. Greece is affected by the ban on bluefin tuna fishing imposed in September 2007 for the rest of the year by the EU because of over-fishing and dwindling stocks. Greek vessels have also been accused by NGO observers of using banned nets which pose a threat to tuna and swordfish stocks.

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Reports from Member States on Behaviours Which Seriously Infringed the Rules of the Common Fisheries Policy in 2006
04/11/2008
This paper from the European Commission documents infringements of the Common Fisheries Policy by Member States in 2006. 83% of the infringements were ...
Author: European Commission
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Race for the Last Bluefin: Capacity of the Purse Seine Fleet Targeting Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean
12/03/2008
WWF states that the Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) fishery has been exposed to rampant overfishing inside the entire ICCAT Convention Zone, namely the At ...
Author: WWF
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The Plunder of BlueFin Tuna in the Mediterranean & East Atlantic During 2006-2007
31/10/2007
This report follows on from a similar one covering the period 2003-04. The author ex ...
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07/02/2010
International celebrities add their voice to call for protection of Bluefin tuna
Author: Times of Malta
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04/12/2009
Europe pours tens of millions into bloating bluefin fleet
Author: WWF
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21/09/2009
Europe against bluefin tuna fishing ban: EU source
Author: AFP
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17/09/2009
Measures to protect Mediterranean tuna are failing, report warns
Author: Guardian, UK
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09/09/2009
Europe moves closer to banning bluefin-tuna trade
Author: Time
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13/05/2009
Greek dolphins to disappear without urgent steps: groups
Author: Reuters
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28/04/2009
European tuna exports to Japan boom as fears grow for fish's survival
Author: Fishupdate.com
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22/04/2009
European Union must act against illegal fishing in Somalia and the Indian ocean
Author: Oceana
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16/04/2009
Close watch kept on EU bluefin tuna fleets
Author: Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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06/01/2009
The two piracies in Somalia: why the world ignores the other
Author: Somali Press Review
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01/09/2008
Thousands of sharks caught by European fleets are not reported to fisheries management organisations says Oceana
Author: Oceana
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25/06/2008
EU fisheries chief stands firm on bluefin tuna ban
Author: Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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23/06/2008
Oceana: Illegal tuna fishery is continuing
Author: Fishupdate.com
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18/06/2008
EU cites flagrant abuse of bluefin tuna fisheries
Author: Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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16/06/2008
EU to ban Med bluefin tuna fishing from next week
Author: Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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04/04/2008
WWF: Greek seas threatened by new trawling decision
Author: Fishupdate.com
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19/02/2008
Oceana highlights need for more support for shark campaign
Author: Fishupdate.com
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24/01/2008
Turkish-Greek dispute rocks the boats
Author: Asia Times Online
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21/12/2007
Greece must act to replenish fish stocks - Greenpeace
Author: Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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24/10/2007
France, Italy face bluefin tuna quota cut
Author: Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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03/10/2007
European Union cracks down on illegal fisheries in Europe
Author: The Fisheries Secretariat, Sweden
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30/09/2007
Illegal fishing still a huge problem as stocks dwindle
Author: Deutsche Welle
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26/09/2007
Commission takes action over tuna infringements
Author: Fishupdate.com
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21/09/2007
EU admits to illegal tuna fishing
Author: WebWire
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19/09/2007
Shutters come down on bluefin tuna fishery
Author: Fishupdate.com
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25/06/2007
US accuses Europe of overfishing tuna in Atlantic
Author: The New York Times
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24/06/2007
Japan‘s latest fear: No more tuna
Author: International Herald Tribune: Business
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12/06/2007
EU clamps down on fishing for bluefin tuna
Author: Reuters, featured on Planet Ark
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20/01/2007
Illegal fishing growing
Author: The Euro Weekly News Online
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16/01/2007
Egypt: new measures to protect Mediterranean fish stocks
Author: allAfrica.com
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15/06/2006
Greenpeace and Grillo join forces
Author: ANSA.it (Italy)
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27/03/2006
May review of Fish Stocks Agreement to stress participation, implementation in order to reverse decline of fish stocks
Author: Media Newswire
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I can help to design and provide Monitoring Control and Surveillance solutions (including VMS) for Fisheries Authorities worlwide. ...
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