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Cartagena only meets 51% of the guidelines of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries of FAO.

This is one of the conclusions I have come researchers from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) in a job where you have studied the ethical dimension of fishing and whose findings were presented at the XXIII Congress of the European Business Ethic Network (EBEN) in Seville.

At work, researchers at the Faculty of Business Maria Eugenia Sanchez, Ignacio Hernandez Segado and Simon warned that Spain only meets 41% of the guidelines for sustainable fisheries and Cartagena, 51%;

Both should reach 70% for a responsible activity.

According to experts, the FAO data on fisheries show that 60% of countries, among which is Spain, irresponsible fishing practice, resulting in a loss of 50,000 million dollars a year and affects 200 million people are engaged in this activity directly.

"We have also detected that 30% of over-exploitation of resources, that 25% of species have collapsed and another 30% are fully exploited," says PhD student Simon Hernandez.

To solve these problems, they propose to end the centralized management model implemented in a majority in world fisheries that is hierarchical and not adapted to the current demands of the sector, in order to give more voice to the fishermen themselves.

"So far the authorities are the decision makers, have forgotten ethics and we need a policy of environmental and social justice," says the researcher.

Moreover, they also believe that appropriate adaptive co-management models involving the agents in the sector to seek proposals and implementing them are implemented.

Source: UPCT