Deepwater redfish is being heavily overfishedOverfished:
A stock is overfished when the stock size has decreased 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. in these areas. This species is vulnerable to fishing pressureFishing pressure:
Fishing pressure is a result of the fishing effort/amount of fishing on a stock, which determines the fishing mortality. Fishing mortality is the share of the fish stock that dies annually as a result of fishing., and is induced by lack of juvenile fish and high fishing mortalityFishing mortality:
The share of the fish stock that dies annually by fishing. This is the size to which fishing pressure is examined. . Deepwater redfish are slow-growing and late-maturing species, which is making the recovery of this stock difficult.
DemersalDemersal longline:
A fishing method whereby an anchored long main line (40-100 km long) is expanded, with attached transverse lines with hooks with bait. otter trawls have a destructive impact on the sea floor. In addition, information regarding bycatchBycatch:
Species caught next to species targeted for fishery. By-catches can consist of non-commercial species and species that are too small, and can be kept (this part is sometimes called by-product) or thrown back into the sea (discards). in this fishery is lacking, and it is though that survival rates of bycatch is low. This fishery is likely to contain large amounts of juvenile and 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. fish as bycatch.
The overall management is seen as partially effective.
Fish in season
Fish is in season when the spawning period has ended, as the quality is then at its best.