New assessment highlights overfishing threat

2015-06-10T12:12:00

The Critically Endangered angelshark, which was formerly found throughout European waters, is now mostly restricted to the Canary Islands due to the impacts of fisheries bycatch. Credit: Philippe Guillaume – Slingshot/CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The recently published European Red List of Threatened Species has found that a total of 7.5% of all European marine fish species are threatened with extinction in European waters.

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