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]

The striped red mullet is one of the important commercial species in the Mediterranean waters of Egypt (GSA 26). Its landings were 779 tonnes in 2014, 529 tonnes in 2015, 479 tonnes in 2017 and 380 tonnes in 2019. Five species (striped red mullet, red mullet, goldband goatfish, Por's goatfish (Upeneus pori) and the Red Sea goatfish (Parupeneus forsskali) of the family Mullidae were recorded in the catch of Egyptian Mediterranean (GSA 26). The landed catch of striped red mullet came mainly from the trawl vessels and constituted about 33 percent of the goatfishes in GSA 26, according to the species composition estimated from personal pilot survey.