News - 2014
Major reform to make the GFCM a modern, competent and effective body for sustainable fisheries
24 May 2014
24 May 2014
The European Commission welcomes a key reform completed by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) at its Annual Session in Rome today, May 20, which sets ambitious objectives for the conservation of fish stocks in the Mediterranean and the...
Fisheries management in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea: time to go to the next level
20 May 2014
20 May 2014
The thirty-eighth annual session of the GFCM, which is being held this week at FAO headquarters in Rome, reached yesterday, 20 May 2014, a historical consensus on a new text of the GFCM Agreement. This new framework should give the...
The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean - Multifaceted approach to improve stock management
28 February 2014
28 February 2014
EUROFISH Magazine 2/2014
Fish stocks do not respect national boundaries and often occur as straddling or shared stocks between exclusive economic zones, or between these zones and the high seas, or exclusively in the high seas. Conserving and managing these stocks...
The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized at its headquarters –palazzo Blumensthil in Rome – a brainstorming meeting which brought together the Permanent Representatives to the FAO...