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...

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...

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...

Izmir, Turkey - More than 60 experts, professionals and stakeholders in the aquaculture field just gathered in Izmir, Turkey, to discuss about the future of aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. On this occasion, the new GFCM Aquaculture...

St Julian’s, Malta – Over 170 participants from all fisheries actors of the Mediterranean and Black Sea have just met in St Julian’s, Malta, to share experiences and make steps towards a sustainable future for small-scale fisheries in the region....

MedPAN 1. On the occasion of its thirty-seventh annual session (May 2013, Split, Croatia), the General Fisheries Commission in the Mediterranean (GFCM) took innovative steps in the management of fisheries through the establishment of marine protected areas. Can you tell us...

FAO Fisheries Department Malta. The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) and FAO are organizing, in partnership with CIHEAM Bari, MedPAN, WWF and in collaboration with the Government of Malta ,the First Regional Symposium on Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean and...