Possibly in overexploitation and overexploited.
[The GFCM methodology to provide stock status and management advice is described in the Appendix F of the Sixteenth Session of the Scientific Advisory Committee Report. See the Bibliography section.]

Stock assessment in the GFCM area of application is often conducted by management units, based on GSAs. This method does not ensure that the whole stock is assessed, since stocks may cover several different management units. In some cases, when there is scientific evidence of a stock spreading through different GSAs, as well as information on species from different GSAs, existing information is combined across GSAs. This is then defined as a “joint stock assessment of a shared stock”. The GFCM recommends that when scientific evidence of shared stocks exists, joint stock assessments should be attempted. A number of activities aimed at achieving a better definition of stock boundaries are currently being conducted at the GFCM level. [The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries, 2016]

This species is one of the most important commercial demersal species in the Alboran Sea. The fishing gear targeting this species is trawl. The trawlers operating since M’diq port target this species between Fnideq and Jebha, at depths between 70 m and 360 m. For Nador trawlers, they operate between Saidia and Jebha, at depths from 68 m to 470 m. For Al Hoceima trawlers, the limits of their trawling are from Sidi Hssaine to Jebha at depths from 18 m to 200 m. This fleet is multi-specific and targets shrimps in association with other groups of fishes. The deep-water rose shrimp represents only 5 percent of the total landings. All the units are in wood with a mean length of 22 m and with a mode of a conservation with ice. This fleet use many types of trawls but the most common trawls are:
- 2 m vertical open trawl, used to catch benthic species like soles, octopus and shrimps; and
- 5 m vertical open trawl, used to catch benthic and semi-pelagic species.
In 2019, in the Mediterranean ports, the coastal trawlers landed 73 commercial species. However, 20 of them constitute 96 percent of the catches. The most landed species are common octopus, Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus), deep-water rose shrimp, axillary seabream Pagellus acarne and Trachinus spp.