GFCM REPORT 28

GENERAL FISHERIES COMMISSION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN

REPORT OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH SESSION

Tangiers, Morocco, 14 - 17 October 2003

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2003

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FAO General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean.
Report of the twenty-eighth session. Tangiers, Morocco, 14-17 October 2003.
GFCM Report. No. 28. Rome, FAO. 2003. 21p.

ABSTRACT

The Twenty-eighth Session of GFCM was attended by delegates from thirteen of the twenty-four Members of the Commission. The Commission reviewed the intersessional activities, especially the conclusions and advices of the sixth session of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC). The Commission urged Members to ensure the participation of scientists in SAC activities and emphasized need for devising integrated management advice based on multispecies stock assessments and on the socio-economic status of concerned fisheries. It acknowledged the importance for SAC of the FAO Regional projects and recommended their continuation and geographical extension. The Commission noted the ratification by 13 Members of the amendments to the GFCM Agreement relative to the autonomous budget and agreed to hold an extraordinary session as soon as possible after the deposit of the sixteenth Instrument of acceptance of the amendments. The Commission favoured a step by step approach for implementing the international plan of action to combat, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IPOA-IUU) in the Mediterranean. The Commission renewed its commitment to implement Recommendation GFCM/2002/1 on the management of selected demersal and small pelagic species and adopted the programme of work of its subsidiaries for 2004. It also renewed the mandate of its Bureau.

Distribution:

Participants in the Session
GFCM Mailing List
FAO Regional and Subregional Fisheries Officers

PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

OPENING OF THE SESSION

ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE SESSION

INTERSESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2002-2003

STATUS OF RATIFICATION OF THE AMENDMENTS TO THE GFCM AGREEMENT AND RELATED ISSUES

IMPLEMENTING THE INTERNATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION ON ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED AND UNREGULATED FISHING (IPOA-IUU) AND ITS RELATIONS AND EFFECTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF FISHING CAPACITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

MANAGEMENT OF MEDITERRANEAN FISHERIES

PROGRAMME OF WORK FOR THE INTERSESSIONAL PERIOD 2004

ELECTION OF THE CHAIRPERSON AND VICE-CHAIRPERSONS

ANY OTHER MATTERS

DATE AND PLACE OF THE TWENTY-NINTH SESSION

ADOPTION OF THE REPORT

APPENDIXES

A. AGENDA
B. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
C. LIST OF DOCUMENTS

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