Piked dogfish in the Black Sea
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Piked dogfish (Squalus acanthias) were once common throughout the Black Sea. However, poor historic management of stocks mean that today their regional survival is under threat. Piked dogfish are still caught in targeted fisheries in Bulgaria and Romania and as bycatch throughout the Black Sea, both in active and passive fishing gear. They grow slowly, mature late and produce few young – this makes their populations particularly vulnerable to overfishing. Because of this vulnerability, the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) has made the species a priority for scientific monitoring, and has launched a dedicated research programme under the BlackSea4Fish project.