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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

Sub-regional consultations for the Western, Central and Eastern Mediterranean

2019 (June 23-June 23) Cairo, Egypt

Scientific Advisory Committee on Fisheries (SAC) - 21st session

2019 (June 24-June 27) Cairo, Egypt

SGSABS Benchmark session for the assessment of Turbot in the Black Sea

2019 (July 8-July 12) Burgas, Bulgaria

Working group on VMS and related control systems (WGVMS); Working group on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing (WGIUU); Compliance Committee (CoC) - 13th session

2019 (July 16-July 19) Tirana, Albania

Sub-regional consultations for the Black Sea

2019 (July 23-July 23) Bucharest, Romania

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

Fourth meeting of the Subregional Committee for the Adriatic Sea (SRC-AS)

2019 (23 May-24 May) Split, Croatia

Workshop on the assessment of management measures for small-pelagic and demersal species in the Adriatic Sea (WKMSE-AS)

2019 (17 May-18 May) FAO headquarters, Rome

Working Group on the management of European eel (WGMEASURES-EEL)

2019 (16 April-17 April) FAO headquarters, Rome

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

MedFish4Ever signatories renew their commitments to a sustainable future for Mediterranean fisheries
17 June 2019

Rome. Mediterranean countries and the European Union have pledged to pursue and strengthen their commitments agreed under the declaration that was signed in 2017. The road is still long to reverse the fisheries crisis in the region, but first efforts...

Faster and bolder action is urgently needed for Mediterranean fisheries
10 June 2019

Rome.The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean has called a high-level conference to renew commitments made under the MedFish4Ever declaration: important progress has been made so far, but there is still a lot of work needed to secure long-term sustainability...

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