Figure 1.

Historical series of landings of chondrichthyans (red line) in the Mediterranean and Black Sea according to FAO statistics⁸⁵, and mean annual landings per unit effort (blue line; with standard error bars) of elasmobranchs in the Balearic Islands²⁴. Colours correspond to different stages of the catches identified according to the algorithm for catch-based stock status⁸⁶: green is “developing”, yellow is “exploited” and red is “overexploited”. The black square indicates our study period.