A view of problematic of fisheries and Aquaculture in Europe

EU citizens are consuming far more fish than European seas can produce by catches and aquaculture, this conducts in importation of 60% of it fish consumption. Some studies also showed that the consumption of fish in EU countries was below the recommended values for human health, so the level of consumption tends to rise. By other hand almost of the fish stocks is fully exploited and can conducts to environmental problems. Some examples were mentioned. The sustainability of fisheries is an EU priority today, as demonstrated the new Common Fisheries Policy. In last two years several recommendations and rules have been done to achieve this objective. By other hand is important educate the consumers to change mentality and conduct them to consume fish catch by sustainability fisheries. Also was implementing several certifications, regional (origin certification) and international. At this point aquaculture is considered a solution to provide fish to EU but some problems are constricts their rise, such as consumer mentality, tourism competitive for coastal areas, environment problems, etc. Several examples were mentioned. In all these problem education of different actors is a big concern. So Aquatnet project, an EU Erasmus project (actually in third edition), study the pr0oblem and try to contribute to the solution of this problem.