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Webcast - Launch of SoMFi 2018 (11 December 2018)

News - New report raises hopes for Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries

Publication - SoMFi 2018

Video - SoMFi 2018 (YouTube)

Podcast
TZH 37 - Securing a future for fisheries

Podcast
Interview with Abdellah Srour, GFCM Executive Secretary, on SoMFi 2018

UN radio interviews:

Méditerranée et mer Noire : un nouveau rapport laisse espérer une embellie pour le secteur de la pêche (FAO) (Abdellah Srour, Secrétaire exécutif de la CGPM)

Espoir d’une reconstitution des stocks de poissons en Méditerranée et en mer Noire (FAO) (Abdellah Srour, Secrétaire exécutif de la CGPM)

Abdellah Srour, GFCM Executive Secretary: Arabic (1) | Arabic (2)

Edgar Mushegyan, GFCM legal consultant for fisheries: Russian

About GFCM

The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) is a regional fisheries management organization (RFMO) established under the provisions...

Fisheries

Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries feature a great variety of target species, vessels and fishing gears and play an extremely...

Aquaculture

Aquaculture is called upon to play a major role for food security, employment and economic development in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. This...

Environment and conservation

The GFCM is also fully committed to undertake actions and adopt management measures linked to the safeguard of marine environment and of threatened...

Monitoring, control and surveillance

The GFCM adopts every year binding recommendations linked to monitoring, control and surveillance aspects in order to come to grips with IUU fishing...

Technical assistance and cooperation

With a view to bringing about a level playing field across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, the GFCM Secretariat has the mandate to provide...

Upcoming meetings

Working Group on Small-Scale Fisheries (WGSSF)

2019 (March 6-March 7) Podgorica, Montenegro

Subregional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (SRC-EM); Joint session on the assessment of deep-water red shrimp in the eastern central Mediterranean; Subregional Committee for the Central Mediterranean (SRC-CM)

2019 (March 18-March 22) FAO HQ, Rome, Italy

Subregional Committee for the Western Mediterranean (SRC-WM); Benchmark session on blackspot seabream

2019 (April 1-April 5) Sète, France

List of GFCM meetings for 2019 (PDF)

Reports - Statutory meetings

Commission - 42nd session

2018 (22 October-26 October) FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy

Compliance Committee (CoC) - 12th session

2018 (05 July-06 July) Madrid, Spain

Scientific Advisory Committee on Fisheries (SAC) - 20th session

2018 (26 June-29 June) Tangiers, Morocco

Reports - Technical meetings

Seventh meeting of the Working Group on the Black Sea

2018 (11 July-13 July) Burgas, Bulgaria

Workshop on the assessment of management measures (WKMSE)

2018 (10 July-11 July) Burgas, Bulgaria

Meeting of the Working Group on Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) and related control systems in the GFCM area of application, including an ad hoc session on the development of integrated MCS for turbot in the Black Sea

2018 (26 April-27 April) 26–27 April 2018, Beirut, Lebanon

CONTACT: General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)

Palazzo Blumenstihl, Via Vittoria Colonna 1 00193, Rome, Italy
Email: gfcm-secretariat@fao.org
GFCM Secretariat: organigram and contacts

Job opportunities in GFCM, including vacancies in FAO-FI

Latest News

A success for the first Forum on fisheries science in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
17 December 2018

Rome, Italy – More than 450 experts and scientists from 45 countries as well as from several international organizations, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders gathered at FAO headquarters, in Rome, from 10 to 14 December to discuss the state of...

A new Bureau for the GFCM
14 December 2018

Rome, Italy – In the mark of the forty-second session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM), which was resumed on Friday 14 December 2018, the GFCM elected its new Bureau for a two-year renewable mandate. Roland Kristo, from Albania,...

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