Cristina Pita, PhD in Social and Environmental Sustainability, is a Senior Researcher at Center of Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) and the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She has been engaged in several projects and has published extensively on small-scale fisheries, seafood value chain and market initiatives for small-scale fisheries, fisheries governance, coastal community development, fisheries (commercial and recreational) management and socioeconomics, and sustainable use of marine resources.

Maarten Bavinck is a Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies (GPIO) of the University of Amsterdam and a member of the Governance and Inclusive Development programme group. He also holds a chair in coastal resource governance at the Norwegian Fisheries College of UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. Dr. Bavinck specializes in the governance of capture fisheries, particularly in the South, and is especially interested in the fate of small-scale fisher peoples. He is the founder and co-director of the social-science Centre for Maritime Studies (MARE).

Provides a comprehensive reader on of the status of small-scale fisheries in Europe, the challenges they are facing and their potential for economic growth and synergies with other sectors

Contributors to the book are scholars from different disciplines, facilitating a transdisciplinary analysis

Analyzes the main challenges to implementing the FAO Small-scale Fisheries Guidelines

INTRODUCTION.- 1. Small-scale fisheries in Europe.-2. The evolution of the EU Common Fisheries Policy and small-scale fisheries: Fighting for recognition.- 3.Focusing on the problems and the management of small-scale fisheries in Greece: Myopia, presbyopia or astigmatism?.- 4. Small-scale fisheries in Spain: challenges and prospects.- 5. Small-scale fisheries in Portugal.- 6. The unexploited potential of Small Scale Fisheries in Italy: analysis and perspectives on the status and resilience of a neglected fishery sector.- 7. Small scale fisheries in France: activity and governance issues .- 8. How is fishery management perceived by Croatian small-scale fishermen: Should I stay or should I go? .- 9. Fishing in the NE Adriatic, Slovenia: from borders to projects.- 10. Governance and socio economic implications of the Black Sea small scale fisheries (Bulgaria).- 11. Small-scale fisheries in Romania: Transformation, vulnerability and change in a sturgeon fishermen community from the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (Romania).- 12. The current status and challenges facing the small-scale fisheries of Turkey.- 13.Small-scale fisheries in Malta: trends and challenges.- 14. Losing space: exploring the Blue Economy and the marginalisation of the small-scale fishers in Cyprus.- 15. Small-scale fisheries in the United Kingdom.-16. Learning from experience in Irish inshore fisheries management.-17. Small-scale fisheries in Iceland: Local voices and global complexities.-18. "...here in my heart" The important of small-scale fishing for Greenlandic society and as a way of life.- 19. Title Small-scale fisheries in Belgium.- 20. Small-scale fisheries in the Netherlands; learning from governance responses for a better future.-21. Small scale fisheries in Germany.- 22. Fisheries in Denmark.- 23. Who won, who lost within the Polish coastal fisheries.- 24. "Nice harbour but where are the fishers?" Critical insight into fisheries policies and its effects to small-scale fisheries in Estonia.- 25. Swedish small-scale fisheries in the Baltic Sea.- 26. Finnish small-scale fisheries: marginalization or revival? .- 27. Small scale fisheries in Norway.- 28. Challenges of governing coastal fisheries in Northwest Russia.- 29. Small-scale fisheries in Europe: tenure, markets, inclusiveness and governance challenges.- 30. The future of small-scale fisheries in Europe.