General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean - GFCM

Authorized vessels

The GFCM holds a record of fishing vessels of more than 15 m length overall authorized to fish in the GFCM area of application (GFCM Authorized Vessel List [GFCM-AVL]), in line with Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/6. Vessels that are not entered into the record are deemed not to be authorized to fish for, retain on board, transship or land species.

In addition, most GFCM multiannual management plans, as well as those Fisheries Restricted Areas that allow for some regulated fishing activity, include a dedicated authorized vessel list which identifies vessels that are allowed to fish for a particular resource subject to the management plan.

GFCM ACTIONS

  • Maintenance and regular updates of the Regional Fleet Register and Authorized Vessel List, including online tools (data browsing and download) and dashboards with the distribution by country and fishing gear, average vessel length by country, etc.
  • Maintenance and regular updates of the Authorized Vessel List per GFCM management plan, including online tools (data browsing and download) and dashboards with the average capacity, length, engine power etc. for each country included in the management plan.
  • Maintenance and regular updates of the register of ports to contribute to strengthened, harmonized and transparent port state measures.

RESOURCES

  • Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/5 on the establishment of the GFCM regional fleet register (EN | FR)
  • Recommendation GFCM/33/2009/6 concerning the establishment of a GFCM record of vessels over 15 metres authorized to operate in the GFCM area of application (EN | FR)
  • Recommendation GFCM/37/2013/1 on a multiannual management plan for fisheries exploiting small pelagic stocks in geographical subarea 17 (northern Adriatic Sea) and on transitional conservation measures for fisheries on small pelagic stocks in geographical subarea 18 (southern Adriatic (EN | FR)
  • Recommendation GFCM/43/2019/2 on a management plan for the sustainable exploitation of blackspot seabream in the Alboran Sea (geographical subareas 1 to 3) (EN | FR)
  • Recommendation GFCM/41/2017/4 on a multiannual management plan for turbot fisheries in the Black Sea (geographical subarea 29) (EN)
  • Recommendation GFCM/43/2019/1 on a set of management measures for the use of anchored fish aggregating devices in common dolphinfish fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea (EN | FR)
  • Recommendation GFCM/42/2018/3 on a multiannual management plan for sustainable trawl fisheries targeting giant red shrimp and blue and red shrimp in the Levant Sea (geographical subareas 24, 25, 26 and 27) (EN | FR)
  • Recommendation GFCM/42/2018/4 on a multiannual management plan for sustainable trawl fisheries targeting giant red shrimp and blue and red shrimp in the Ionian Sea (geographical subareas 19, 20 and 21) (EN | FR)
  • Recommendation GFCM/43/2019/6 on management measures for sustainable trawl fisheries targeting giant red shrimp and blue and red shrimp in the Strait of Sicily (geographical subareas 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16) (EN | FR)