Fisheries for common octopus in Europe: socioeconomic importance and management

Pita, Cristina; Roumbedakis, Katina; Fonseca, Teresa; Matos, Fábio L.; Pereira, João; Villasante, Sebastián; Pita, Pablo; González, Ángel F.; García-Tasende, Manuel; Lefkaditou, Evgenia; Adamidou, Aggeliki; Cuccu, Danila; Belcari, Paola; Moreno, Ana; Pierce, Graham J.

doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2020.105820

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“…Since cephalopods are often not the target species, their catches are only indirectly controlled, for example through restrictions on the types of fishing gear that can be used and catch quotas set for non-cephalopod species. In artisanal cephalopod fisheries, especially in southern Europe, regulatory restrictions on fishing activity are numerous, but few regulations are aimed at maintaining the status of cephalopod stocks, and these regulations are not always enforced, resulting in suspected high levels of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing 34 .…”

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A network analysis of global cephalopod trade

Ospina-Álvarez

Juan

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The global trade in cephalopods is a multi-billion dollar business involving the fishing and production of more than ten commercially valuable species. It also contributes, in whole or in part, to the subsistence and economic livelihoods of thousands of coastal communities around the world. The importance of cephalopods as a major cultural, social, economic, and ecological resource has been widely recognised, but research efforts to describe the extent and scope of the global cephalopod trade are limited. So far, there are no specific regulatory and monitoring systems in place to analyse the traceability of the global trade in cephalopods at the international level. To understand who are the main global players in cephalopod seafood markets, this paper provides, for the first time, a global overview of the legal trade in cephalopods. Twenty years of records compiled in the UN COMTRADE database were analysed. The database contained 115,108 records for squid and cuttlefish and 71,659 records for octopus, including commodity flows between traders (territories or countries) weighted by monetary value (USD) and volume (kg). A theoretical network analysis was used to identify the emergent properties of this large trade network by analysing centrality measures that revealed key insights into the role of traders. The results illustrate that three countries (China, Spain, and Japan) led the majority of global market movements between 2000 and 2019. Based on volume and value, as well as the number of transactions, 11 groups of traders were identified. The leading cluster consisted of only eight traders, who dominated the cephalopod market in Asia (China, India, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam), Europe (the Netherlands, and Spain), and the USA. This paper identifies the countries and territories that acted as major importers or exporters, the best-connected traders, the hubs or accumulators, the modulators, the main flow routes, and the weak points of the global cephalopod trade network over the last 20 years. This knowledge of the network is crucial to move towards an environmentally sustainable, transparent, and food-secure global cephalopod trade.

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A network analysis of global cephalopod trade

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“…However, we acknowledge that many of the problems detected for fishes can be present in other groups. For instance, cephalopods have increased in commercial importance in the last decades [39] and yet face several threats from unregulated fisheries, bycatch, and poor life-history knowledge [40].…”

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Conservation-Status Gaps for Marine Top-Fished Commercial Species

Miqueleiz

Miranda

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Biodiversity loss is a global problem, accelerated by human-induced pressures. In the marine realm, one of the major threats to species conservation, together with climate change, is overfishing. In this context, having information on the conservation status of target commercial marine fish species becomes crucial for assuring safe standards. We put together fisheries statistics from the FAO, the IUCN Red List, FishBase, and RAM Legacy databases to understand to what extent top commercial species’ conservation status has been assessed. Levels of assessment for top-fished species were higher than those for general commercial or highly commercial species, but almost half of the species have outdated assessments. We found no relation between IUCN Red List traits and FishBase Vulnerability Index, depreciating the latter value as a guidance for extinction threat. The RAM database suggests good management of more-threatened species in recent decades, but more data are required to assess whether the trend has reverted in recent years. Outdated IUCN Red List assessments can benefit from reputed stock assessments for new reassessments. The future of IUCN Red List evaluations for commercial fish species relies on integrating new parameters from fisheries sources and improved collaboration with fisheries stakeholders and managers.

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“…Since they are often not the target species, cephalopod catches are only indirectly controlled, for example through restrictions on the types of shing gear that can be used and catch quotas set for non-cephalopod species. In artisanal cephalopod sheries, especially in southern Europe 21 , regulatory restrictions on shing activity are numerous, but few regulations are aimed at maintaining the status of cephalopod stocks, and these regulations are not always enforced, resulting in suspected high levels of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) shing.…”

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Main actors in the Cephalopod Global Trade Network: a graph theory analysis

Ospina-Álvarez

Mohan

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The global cephalopod trade is a multi-billion-dollar industry that involves fishing and captive breeding of a dozen species of high commercial value. It also contributes wholly or partly to the income and subsistence of thousands of families around the world. Despite its broad ecological, social, and economic importance, limited research has been conducted to describe the scope and scale of the global cephalopod trade. To date, there is no specific regulation, nor have tracking systems been implemented, to study the traceability of the global cephalopod trade at an international level. We provide, for the first time, a comprehensive description of the legal trade in cephalopods to understand who the key world players in the cephalopod seafood markets are. We analysed 20 years of records compiled by the United Nations COMTRADE database. The database contained 115,108 entries for squid and cuttlefish and 71,659 entries for octopus, including the product flow between traders (countries or territories) weighted by volume (kg) and monetary value (USD). Graph theoretic analysis was used to explore the emergent properties of this database through the analysis of different measures of centrality that provide insights on the key role of the traders in the network. Our findings show that most of the market movements between ca. 250 traders are led by three countries (China, Spain, and Japan), involving 11 clusters of traders based on the volume and value of cephalopod trade and number of transactions. The most important cluster, that dominates the cephalopod seafood market, is composed by 5 Asian countries (China, India, Republic of Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam), 2 European countries (the Netherlands and Spain) and the USA. This work identifies the traders that act as major exporters and/or importers, the modulators, intermediaries or accumulators, the best-connected traders, the principal flow routes and the weaknesses of the global cephalopod trade network. This network information is essential to advance towards a transparent and sustainable cephalopods world trade.

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Fisheries for common octopus in Europe: socioeconomic importance and management

Cited by 28 publications

References 45 publications

A network analysis of global cephalopod trade

A network analysis of global cephalopod trade

Conservation-Status Gaps for Marine Top-Fished Commercial Species

Main actors in the Cephalopod Global Trade Network: a graph theory analysis

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