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.

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...