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General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) - Country Profiles

Policies

Regional plan of action for small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
Date of text: 26 September 2018
Resolution for a mid-term strategy (2017–2020) towards the sustainability of Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries (Res. GFCM/40/2016/2).
Date of text: 2016

Legislation

Environment

Resolution GFCM/43/2019/4 on the ban of single-use plastics in all GFCM meetings.
Date of text: 2019

Fisheries

Recommendation GFCM/43/2019/1 on a set of management measures for the use of anchored fish aggregating devices in common dolphinfish fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea.
Date of text: 2019
Recommendation GFCM/43/2019/4 on a management plan for the sustainable exploitation of red coral in the Mediterranean Sea.
Date of text: 2019
Recommendation GFCM/43/2019/5 on a multiannual management plan for sustainable demersal fisheries in the Adriatic Sea (geographical subareas 17 and 18).
Date of text: 2019
Recommendation GFCM/42/2018/1 on a multiannual management plan for European eel in the Mediterranean Sea.
Date of text: 2018
Recommendation GFCM/42/2018/8 on further emergency measures in 2019-2021 for small pelagic stocks in the Adriatic Sea (geographical subareas 17 and 18).
Date of text: 2018

Gender

Resolution GFCM/45/2022/1 on empowering women in the aquaculture sector.
Date of text: 2022

Sea

Resolution GFCM/43/2019/4 on the ban of single-use plastics in all GFCM meetings.
Date of text: 2019

Wild species and ecosystems

Resolution GFCM/43/2019/6 on the establishment of a set of measures to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems formed by cnidarian (coral) communities in the Mediterranean Sea.
Date of text: 2019
Resolution GFCM/41/2017/5 on a network of essential fish habitats in the GFCM area of application.
Date of text: 2017