General Information

Small-scale Coastal Catches
Layer Info
Category	Activities
Sub-category	Fishing

Description

Small scale coastal fishing is composed, typically, by family-based businesses, where owners are directly involved in the fishing activity. Together with other maritime activities, small-scale fisheries play an important role in local economies.

Small-scale fisheries are especially important in the Mediterranean, where over half of the sector is concentrated and where it has been playing a dominant role in the livelihoods of coastal communities for centuries.

MSP Challenge

Small Scale Coastal Catch is a month-by-month, computer-generated data layer following this fleet's fishing catch calculated by the ecosystem simulation. This fleet doesn't fish in areas that are protected against small scale coastal fisheries.

A plan can also include a change in the fishing efforts for this fleet per EEZ. Activate the Fishing controls by ticking the appropriate checkbox under section 2b in the Plan Wizard. Subsequently, change the Fishing effort sliders under the Fishing tab of the Plan Details (maximize the Plans Monitor and select your plan)

Return to fishing.

North Sea

Not applicable. This layer is not yet available in the MSP Challenge North Sea Edition.

Baltic Sea

Not applicable. This layer is not yet available in the MSP Challenge Baltic Sea Edition.

Clyde Marine Region

Not applicable. This layer is not yet available in the MSP Challenge Clyde Marine Region Edition.

Adriatic Sea

Not applicable. This layer is not yet available in the MSP Challenge Adriatic Sea Edition.

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Types

Very Low Density
Low Density
Medium Density
High Density
Very High Density

Metadata

Data Source

Mackerel is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE). The simplified EwE Eastern Mediterranean model was adjusted for use in the MSP Challenge by Eyal Ofir.

For more information on how Ecopath-with-Ecosim (EwE) works, please visit our Wiki page or visit the official EwE website at https://ecopath.org.