For years, the impoverishment of artisanal fishery in the Mediterranean countries has been frequently reported at all levels when the urgency for intervention was systematically highlighted. There was not enough knowledge either of the primary or secondary magnitudes of artisanal fishery or of the normative and managerial tools that cover the entire spectrum of competence. The project Cooperation Networks to Facilitate Coordination to Support Fisheries Management in the Western and Central Mediterranean (COPEMED) took up the challenge to assess the artisanal fisheries in its eight member countries. This study summarizes the reports of interviews in 13,582 sites.