The State of the Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Environment

LUXEMBOURG

CZECH REPUBLIC

SLOVAKIA

u

u

CROATIA BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA SLOVENIA

u

u

u

FRANCE

MONTENEGRO

Kosovo

u

ITALY

ALBANIA

SPAIN

TURKEY

SYRIA

TUNISIA

GREECE

MALTA

CYPRUS

LEBANON

ISRAEL

MOROCCO

ALGERIA

Occupied Palestinian Territories

LIBYA

EGYPT

countries of production, linking their oilfields to their refineries and port terminals or to other countries.

offshore), three in Italy (Val d’Agri in the southern region of Basili- cata, Abruzzo, offshore, and in the lower Adriatic Sea off Brindisi) (EEA and UNEP 1999), and very considerable reserves in the Le- vantine Basin Province (Schenk et al. 2010). The active trade and distribution of oil and gas in the Mediter- ranean Basin, both on land and at sea, involves an extensive net- work of crude oil pipelines and gas line systems, mainly in the

Fisheries Fishing is an important issue for theMediterranean. Although it puts only a relatively small quantity of produce on the market compared with the demand, it is a significant source of employment and an important component of the Mediterranean cultural identity. It ac-

Fish catch in the Mediterranean Sea sub-regions

Fish catches, 2008 Tonnes

Share caught by

African countries European countries Asian countries Catches decreased from 2000

260 000 150 000 65 000 20 000

SLOVENIA

FRANCE

CROATIA

ITALY

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

MONACO

Guld de Lion

MONTENEGRO

Adriatic

ALBANIA

Sardinia

SPAIN

TURKEY

GREECE

Balearic Islands

Ionian Sea

SYRIA

Levant

MALTA

Egean Sea

CYPRUS

LEBANON

TUNISIA

MOROCCO

ISRAEL

ALGERIA

Occupied Palestinian Territories

EGYPT

LIBYA

Sources:FAO-GFCM database, accessed in October 2011.

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