The future common fisheries policy (CFP)

The situation facing the European fisheries sector is very worrying, despite the significant fishery potential in this sector of the immense exclusive economic zone available to Member states (almost 24 M km² in total, o/w over a third for our country). In fact, annual production is constantly diminishing: we are therefore consuming more and more imported products, and the sector’s trade deficit is constantly growing, whereas food self-sufficiency is one of the objectives of the CFP. At the same time, the number of fishermen is also falling, despite there being around 150,000 at a community level, generating almost 900,000 jobs in total.