The European Unions Common Fisheries Policy Landing Obligation aims to tackle fishery discards, which presents issues for sustainable management. Although introduced in 2015, questions over its implementation and impacts on the various fishing sectors remain.
With concern surrounding the socio-economic ramifications of the EU's Landing Obligation on fishers and fishing communities throughout Europe, avoiding choke species is high up on the agenda.
Not all fisheries are created equal - and not all fisheries are as poorly managed as others. But does fishery management mean that a fishery can achieve that hallowed if rather vague ‘sustainability’ goal?