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Target name By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
Indicator name Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels
Global / Proxy indicator Global indicator
Description of indicator GFCM stock assessment analysis, it includes the catch landed and discarded and the analysis made from these data. In order to determine the sustainability of stocks, evaluation is made according to reference values.
Unit (%)
Available disaggregation -
Calculation The data are analyzed together with the coastal country data according to the methods specified in the literature. It is done according to the areas included in the GFCM sub-areas.
Comparability Comparable over time. Produced  in full compliance with global metadata
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Data source Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
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Target name

By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics

Indicator name

Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels

UN designated tier

Tier I

UN custodian agency

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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