There are many different activities for the protection of marine species.
The most important are surely the fishing bans in absolute species at risk and the strong organic practiced for almost thirty years.
The fishing bans consists in the total stop of the fishing activity for periods ranging from 30 days up to a maximum of 43, on the basis of the portfolios of the territorial and types of fishing to enable the fish fauna of the “retrieve“ the unit and to reproduce. This regulation raises a long time many doubts, not only on the part of the operators, who of course ill digest a block of work activities of this magnitude, but also in the scientific world used for the surveillance of the health status of the fish stocks that should benefit from periods of stop of fishing.
The uncertainties further arise from the temporal location of the detents during the year, which often does not match really with the reproductive period, a phenomenon accentuated especially in seas like that of the Riviera di Ponente equipped with a large number of different species, and the effect that is generated immediately after the release of the fishing.
Immediately after the end of the block it has, in fact, a period of fishing relatively happy, which leads to the markets a greater quantity of fish, with negative consequences on the economic value of the catch itself to the excessive availability with respect to the average.
Another activity that takes place continuously for the protection of our seas is the monitoring of non-native species that, if implanted in an environment without natural predators, they can create extremely grave damage and the disappearance of entire species.
Year of introduction of the measure of the fishing bans.
The minimum size of swordfish fishing.
A threat in general for Mediterranean fisheries and in particular for the Liguria region overlooking a basin essentially pelagic, is ascertained presence in our waters of the so-called sea coconut, native to the Gulf of Mexico.
