Editing Aegean Sea (section)

===Fishing===
Fish are Greece's second-largest agricultural export, and Greece has Europe's largest fishing fleet.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-way-of-life-drowned-by-greeces-crisis-1440051334 |title=A Way of Life Drowned by Greece's Crisis |last1=Forelle |first1=Charles |last2=Kantchev |first2=Georgi |last3=Kelly |first3=Mark |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=20 August 2015 |access-date=16 June 2019 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=12 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200312034946/https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-way-of-life-drowned-by-greeces-crisis-1440051334 |url-status=live }}</ref> Fish captured include [[Sardines as food|sardines]], [[Mackerel as food|mackerel]], [[grouper]], [[grey mullet]]s, [[sea bass]], and [[Sparidae|seabream]]. There is a considerable difference between fish catches between the pelagic and demersal zones;<ref>{{cite journal |last=Stergiou, Pollard |date=August 1994 |title=A spatial analysis of the commercial fisheries catches from the Greek Aegean Sea |journal=Fisheries Research |volume=20 |issue= 2–3|pages=109–135 |doi=10.1016/0165-7836(94)90078-7|bibcode=1994FishR..20..109S }}</ref> with respect to pelagic fisheries, the catches from the northern, central and southern Aegean area groupings are dominated, respectively, by [[anchovy]], [[Trachurus|horse mackerels]], and [[boops]]. For demersal fisheries, the catches from the northern and southern Aegean area groupings are dominated by [[Mullet (fish)|grey mullets]] and [[Spicara smaris|pickerel]] (''Spicara smaris'') respectively.

The industry has been impacted by the [[Great Recession]].{{clarify|date=August 2019}} Overfishing and [[habitat destruction]] is also a concern, threatening grouper, and seabream populations, resulting in perhaps a 50% decline of fish catch.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-fishing-idUSKBN1JS1HK |title=As stocks deplete, Greek fishermen scrap boats and livelihoods |publisher=Reuters |date=3 July 2018 |access-date=16 June 2019 |archive-date=26 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326163001/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-fishing-idUSKBN1JS1HK |url-status=live }}</ref> To address these concerns, Greek fishermen have been offered a compensation by the government. Although some species are defined as protected or threatened under EU legislation, several illegal species such as the molluscs ''[[Pinna nobilis]]'', ''[[Charonia tritonis]]'' and ''[[Lithophaga lithophaga]]'', can be bought in restaurants and fish markets around Greece.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archipelago.gr/en/our-work/marine-conservation/fisheries/ |title=Fisheries |website=Archipelagos |access-date=16 June 2019 |archive-date=15 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615190235/https://archipelago.gr/en/our-work/marine-conservation/fisheries/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>