FN Archimer Export Format PT CHAP TI The Implementation of the Landing Obligation in Small-Scale Fisheries of Southern European Union Countries BT The European Landing Obligation, S. S. Uhlmann et al. (eds.), 2018. ISBN 978-3-030-03307-1 ISBN 978-3-030-03308-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03308-8.Chap.5, pp.89-108 AF Villasante, Sebastian Antelo, Manel Christou, Maria FAUCONNET, Laurence FRANGOUDES, Katia Maynou, Francesc Morato, Telmo Pita, Cristina Pita, Pablo Stergiou, Konstantinos Teixeira, Celia Tserpes, George Vassilopoulou, Vassiliki AS 1:1;2:2;3:3,4;4:5;5:6;6:7;7:8;8:9;9:2;10:3,4;11:10;12:11;13:12; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:; C1 Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Departamento de Oceanografia e Pescas – Okeanos, Instituto do Mar (IMAR), Universidade dos Açores, Horta, Portugal University of Brest, Ifremer, CNRS, UMR 6308, AMURE, IUEM, Plouzané, France Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), Institute of Marine Research (IMAR) and OKEANOS Research Unit, Universidade dos Açores, Horta, Portugal Department of Environment and Planning & Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Institute of Marine Biological Resources (IMBR), Hellenic Centre of Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece C2 UNIV SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN UNIV SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN HELLENIC CTR MARINE RES, GREECE UNIV THESSALONIKI, GREECE UNIV AZORES, PORTUGAL UBO, FRANCE CSIC, SPAIN IMAR, PORTUGAL UNIV AVEIRO, PORTUGAL UNIV LISBON, PORTUGAL HELLENIC CTR MARINE RES, GREECE HELLENIC CTR MARINE RES, GREECE UM AMURE UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00473/58438/61014.pdf LA English DT Book section DE ;Common Fisheries Policy;Discards;Impacts;Landing Obligation;Small-scale fisheries;Southern Europe AB In the European Union, discards represent a major source of undocumented mortality, contributing to the overfishing of European fish stocks. However, little attention has been given by the scientific community to discards in the European Union’s small-scale fisheries (SSF). This is mainly due to the fact that discards are mostly generated by industrial fisheries, while SSFs were generally thought to have lower discard rates than industrial fisheries. A Landing Obligation (LO) is being introduced in European waters with the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) (Article 15, EU regulation 1380/2013) to limit/reduce discarding. However, management recommendations are required to support its implementation. The reality and challenges to enforce the LO in SSF are analyzed in this chapter, gathering information from different small-scale fisheries and fishers from the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea who were asked about their perceptions toward the LO. The objectives of this chapter are to (a) identify the reasons for discarding and (b) investigate the multiple ecological, economic, social, and institutional drivers which act as a barrier toward the implementation of the LO in SSF. Given the high importance of SSF in the southern countries of Europe, different case studies of SSF from France, Greece, Portugal, and Spain coasts are used to illustrate the reasons for discarding, the impacts of the LO on SSF, and the barriers for its implementation. PY 2018 DI 10.1007/978-3-030-03308-8_5 ID 58438 ER EF