ES  Q&A with Georgios Paximadis, Aquaculture Expert at the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on how enhancing sea urchin roe can boost food security and livelihoods whilst preserving...

The overall purpose of the activities is to contribute to the execution of scientific demersal trawl survey at sea, in order: to contribute to the characterization of demersal fisheries resources in Albanian and Montenegrin waters in terms of population distribution, abundance as well as...

Something new is sweeping across Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.  With support from the General Fisheries Commission of the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Lebanon, Syria and Palestine have embarked on boosting their fish...

Within the framework of the development of the aquaculture sector in Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture and the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today reaffirmed their...

The SSF Forum in the Black Sea is coming together to tackle rapa whelk: workshops involving fishers, consumers, fishery management authorities and more will kick off on 29 March 2022  Rapana venosa or the rapa whelk, a non-indigenous species, settled in...

News from the FAO Liaison Office in New York FAO and partners are expanding the evidence base on the impact of anthropogenic underwater noise in marine ecosystems, the interruption of which can have grave socioeconomic implications. Marine areas beyond national jurisdiction cover...

The role of women in fisheries is often invisible. Overlooked by data collection, absent from legal frameworks, unrepresented in industry forums, women’s contributions often go unacknowledged. The GFCM is working with countries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea to change...

Romeo Mikičić has been fishing in the azure waters of the Adriatic Sea for more than 40 years.The father of two is passionate about the sea and comes from generations of fishers who lived on the island of Cres, one...

Over the past 18 months, the GFCM research programme on European eel has made great strides towards achieving a coordinated framework for management of eel towards the preparation of a multi-annual management plan in the Mediterranean. On 23 February 2022,...