Overfishing in the Balearics

2015-02-02T14:46:00

Fishing trawlers in Porto Colom have moved on since 1949 ©OCEANA/Javier Pastor Quijada

Oceana warns that half of all the catches in the Spanish Balearic Islands over the last 60 years have not been declared - meaning that actual catches from the fisheries are 2.3 times higher than official figures.

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