The Mediterranean is the world's most overfished sea.
According to the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 75 percent of its fish stocks are exploited in an unsustainable way.
This is bad news for all countries in the area, but especially for Italy, which has the largest fleet in the EU by the number of vessels. Many coastal towns and the welfare of hundreds of thousands of Italians depend on fishing.
The problem is that there is fewer and f...
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Already a member? Login hereValentina Saini is a freelance journalist specialising in Italian social issues and politics, gender issues and the Middle East and North Africa region.