NUMBERS of large fish in a region of the Mediterranean have shown little sign of recovery in the decade since trawler fishing was banned in the area.
The dismal finding reveals that it’s not just the North Atlantic and waters off West Africa that are suffering the dire consequences of overfishing.
A ban introduced in 1989 on trawler fishing off the coast of Sicily was expected to give fish stocks enough time to recover. To find out how effective the ban had been in its first 10 years, Nicholas Polunin and colleagues at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne looked at data…
