The IUCN considers the fisheries to be abundant and fully exploited, and in need of careful monitoring.
The highly international species has no concerted management plan.

Local populations fluctuate, and have shown large fluctuations in the past.
These fluctuations are not well understood.
Some past declines have been due to environmental problems, local overfishing, and invasive species from ballast water.
Mnemiopsis leidyi is an invasive species which eats European anchovy eggs.
Some past fluctuations are likely due to climate change.

European anchovies are caught with purse seines, lamparas, trawls and beach seines.
Bycatch is thought, on the basis of insufficient data, to be minor.
The IUCN considers the fisheries to be abundant and fully exploited, and in need of careful monitoring. The highly international species has no concerted management plan.
Local populations fluctuate, and have shown large fluctuations in the past. These fluctuations are not well understood. Some past declines have been due to environmental problems, local overfishing, and invasive species from ballast water. Mnemiopsis leidyi is an invasive species which eats European anchovy eggs. Some past fluctuations are likely due to climate change.
European anchovies are caught with purse seines, lamparas, trawls and beach seines. Bycatch is thought, on the basis of insufficient data, to be minor.
European anchovy