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Topic 3: INTEGRATED COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT
polyvalent boats. In spite of the presence of 5 wholesalers, there are no fish markets.
The tourist flux (88.78 visitors/inhabitants per year) provided good incomes for
Aeolian people specially in summer season, but the fishing tourism was still poorly
considered (only 3 fishing boats carried out this integrative activity). All fishing
activities had high costs and low yearly net incomes (mean: 4,670 € for trammel net,
7,653 € for squid hand-jig line, 6,979 € albacore drifting longline), related to the low
ex-vessel prices of the main large pelagic fishes. The most abundant commercial
species were Thunnus alalunga (CPUE=2,898.2 kg/1000 hook*day) and Todarodes
sagittatus (1,509.9 kg/day). The level of trace elements in fish species recorded high
values for mercury (mean: 2.669 mg/g d.w. for H. dactylopterus; 1.167 mg/g d.w. for
S. cabrilla).
Conclusions – The application of DPSIR model allowed to specify some management
actions that could improve the actual status of Aeolian fishery sector and coastal areas:
the institution of a MPA or no take zones in nursery areas, the reduction of fishing
effort in coastal areas, the shift of fishing effort towards offshore areas targeting
pelagic resources with an underexploited stock (es: T. alalunga, Coryphaena hippurus,
Ommastrephes bartramii), the valorization of the Aeolian historical and cultural
fishing heritage, a better valorization of fishing products by the quality certification and
by fish preserving (i.e.: smoking, canning, salting), a periodic monitoring of trace
element in fishing products, the building of a fish market, the shortening of the fishery
chain by deleting superfluous intermediate steps, the improvement of tourism-fishery
interaction by a direct involvement of fishermen in fishing-tourism activities or whalewatching.
These management suggestions could be useful tools to target the realization
of objectives scheduled by the Council Regulation (EC) No 1198/2006 on the
European Fisheries Fund.
References
BATTAGLIA P., ROMEO T., CONSOLI P., SCOTTI G., ANDALORO F. (2010) - Characterization
of the artisanal fishery and its socio-economic aspects in the central Mediterranean Sea (Aeolian
Islands, Italy). Fisheries Research, 102: 87-97.
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