GFCM News
Regional Aquaculture Conference
10 November 2014
10 November 2014
The Italian Presidency of the Council of the EU, together with the GFCM of the FAO and in cooperation with the European Commission, is pleased to confirm that the Regional Aquaculture Conference “Blue Growth in the Mediterranean and the Black...
Entry into force of GFCM 38 decisions / Entrée en vigueur des décisions de la CGPM 38
16 October 2014
16 October 2014
The following GFCM decisions entered into force on 16th October 2014:
Recommendation GFCM/38/2014/1 amending Recommendation GFCM/37/2013/1 and on precautionary and emergency measures for 2015 on small pelagic stocks in the GFCM-GSA 17
Recommendation GFCM/38/2014/2 amending and repealing Recommendation GFCM/34/2010/3 concerning the identification...
The Algerian Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, H.E. Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi, visited the GFCM headquarters and met the GFCM Chairperson, the Executive Secretary and the staff. This visit was the occasion to discuss opportunities for enhanced cooperation between Algeria...
The fifth Meeting of Regional Fishery Body Secretariats Network (RSN-5) (Session 1) was hosted in Palazzo Blumenstihl, GFCM HQ, Satuday 7th June 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...