Climate change continues to alter the productivity of commercially and culturally important fisheries with major consequences for food security and coastal economies. We provide the first, multi‐model projections of changes in the distribution and productivity of 18 key fish stocks across seven European regional seas spanning the Mediterranean to the Arctic, using 11 state‐of‐the‐art bio‐ecological models. Our projections indi...

Local Ecological Knowledge of 92 professional fishers from Tunisia and Libya was used to investigate on the occurrence and establishment of the exotic Hemiramphus far and Saurida undosquamis along the southern Mediterranean coasts. According to fisherman’s knowledge, H. far and S. undosquamis appeared in Libya, in 1980 and 1989 respectively. In Tunisia these species were observed afterwards, in 2004 and 2007. Currently both H....

An age‐structured, population biology submodel and an economic submodel with vessel‐specific dynamics were applied to a demersal fishery in the N orth A egean ( NE M editerranean) that consists of three main stocks: European hake M erluccius merluccius ( L .), red mullet M ullus barbatus L . and striped red mullet M ullus surmuletus L . The Mefisto model is a bioeconomic simulation model through which the biological and econom...

We estimated patchiness for different life stages (egg, larvae and juveniles) of European hake ( Merluccius merluccius ) from two ichthyoplankton surveys (September and November 1999) and four bottom‐trawl surveys (November 1998, February, June and September 1999). Lloyd's patchiness P = 1 + 1/k , where k is the dispersion parameter of the negative binomial distribution, was calculated. Juveniles showed lower indices of patchi...