Thicklip grey mullet

There is little known about the state and development of the mullet stock in the North Sea, but because there is little focused fishery on mullet there is probably no overfishingOverfishing:
There is so much fish caught that the size of the stock has diminished so far that it can no longer produce a maximum sustainable yield. The size of the fish populations is insufficient to reproduce in the long term. .

Fishery on mullet with a set gillnet does not harm the seabed.

There is currently no joint management for mullet in European waters. Because there is little focused fishery, this is not an urgent problem.

Thicklip grey mullet is actively fished with a gillnet, or bycatch in the [beamtrawl] and [bottom otter trawl] fishery. This last fishery is unselective and has a lot of bycatch of undersizedUndersized fish:
Fish smaller than a prescribed minimum size. These sizes are determined per species and per country. For Europe, a minimum landing size applies to all EU Member States.  and unwanted species. The fishing with bottom otter trawls also ploughs through the seabed and is a direct disruption of seabed life. Research shows that intensive fishing with bottom otter trawls leads in the long term to a change in diversity of the environment and species composition in the sea.

There is little known about the state and development of the mullet stock in the North Sea, but because there is little focused fishery on mullet there is probably no overfishingOverfishing:
There is so much fish caught that the size of the stock has diminished so far that it can no longer produce a maximum sustainable yield. The size of the fish populations is insufficient to reproduce in the long term. .

There is currently no joint management for mullet in European waters. Because there is little focused fishery, this is not an urgent problem.