FAO General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean. Report of the thirty-third session

GFCM Report. No. 33

FAO General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean

Report of the thirty-third session

Tunis, 23–27 March 2009

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Rome 2009
 
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PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

This document is the final version of the report adopted in Tunis by the thirty-third session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) on 27 March 2009.

 

FAO General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean.
Report of the thirty-third session. Tunis, 23–27 March 2009.
GFCM Report. No. 33. Rome, FAO. 2009. 126p.


ABSTRACT


The thirty-third session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) was attended by 21 Contracting Parties. The Commission reviewed the intersessional activities of its scientific and technical subsidiary bodies and held the third session of its Compliance Committee. The GFCM adopted binding management decisions on a reduction of 10 percent of fishing effort for demersal trawl fisheries in the competence area, the establishment of a new Fisheries Restricted Area in the Gulf of Lions and the establishment of a minimum mesh size in the codend of demersal trawlnets. The GFCM also agreed to put into operation a Vessel Monitoring System by the end of 2012 and to establish a fleet register by the end of 2010. The Commission amended its Recommendations on the record of fishing vessels over 15 metres authorized to operate in the GFCM area, and on the establishment of a list of vessels presumed to have carried out illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Regarding data reporting, the Commission adopted new binding Recommendations for aquaculture and the implementation of the GFCM Task 1 statistical matrix. The GFCM further endorsed three Recommendations of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) on swordfish and bluefin tuna fisheries. The GFCM decided to establish a new Committee on Administration and Finance and agreed on modalities to undertake its performance review in 2009 and 2010. It agreed to create a new professional position within the Secretariat and adopted its 2009 budget and programme of work. The Commission renewed the bureau of its Compliance Committee and acknowledged the use for the first time of Arabic as working language. The GFCM addressed the issue of its new headquarters, in particular the possibility of the Secretariat to move into it preferably before the summer of 2009.

CONTENTS

Part I  (Download pdf 265 kb)    Part II  (Download pdf 730 kb)


OPENING OF THE SESSION

ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SESSION

REPORT ON THE INTERSESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2008

ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL ISSUES

MANAGEMENT OF MEDITERRANEAN FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE

PROGRAMME OF WORK FOR THE INTERSESSIONAL PERIOD 2009

GFCM BUDGET AND MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS FOR 2009

ANY OTHER MATTERS

DATE AND PLACE OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH SESSION

ADOPTION OF THE REPORT


APEENDIXES

A  Agenda

B  List of participants

C  List of documents

D  Terms of reference of the GFCM Committee on Administration and Finance

E  Resolution GFCM/33/2009/1 on the management of demersal fisheries in the GFCM area

F  Resolution GFCM/33/2009/2 on the establishment of geographical sub-areas in the GFCM
    area amending the Resolution GFCM/31/2007/2

G  Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/1 on the establishment of a fisheries restricted area in the
    Gulf of Lions to protect spawning aggregations and deep sea sensitive habitat

H  Request for SAC to undertake studies on the protection of spawning aggregations on the
    continental shelf edge and slope of the Northern Western Mediterranean

I  Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/2 on the minimum mesh size in the codend of demersal
    trawlnets

J  Recommendation GFCM /33/2009/3 on the implementation of the GFCM Task 1 Statistical
    Matrix (repealing Resolution GFCM/31/2007/1)

K  Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/4 on reporting of aquaculture data and information

L  Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/5 on the establishment of the GFCM regional fleet register

M  Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/6 concerning the establishment of a GFCM record of vessels
     over 15 metres authorized to operate in the GFCM area amending the Recommendation
     GFCM/2005/2

N  Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/7 concerning minimum standards for the establishment of
     a vessel monitoring system (VMS) in the GFCM area

O  Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/8 on the establishment of a list of vessels presumed to have
     carried out IUU fishing in the GFCM area amending the Recommendation GFCM/2006/4

P  Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/9 concerning selected ICCAT Recommendations

Q  Report of the third session of the Compliance Committee, Tunis, 23 and 25 March 2009

R  Guidelines for the GFCM performance review

S  Draft Recommendation on the management of fishing capacity

T  autonomous budget for 2009

U  Contributions to the GFCM budget for 2009