Regional Conference on “Building a future for sustainable small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea” (Algiers, Algeria 7-9 March 2016)
The Regional Conference on sustainable small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean is organized by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), including its Mediterranean regional projects, in collaboration with the Algerian Ministry for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries and in partnership with the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies – Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (CIHEAM-Bari), the Network of Marine Protected Area Managers in the Mediterranean (MedPAN) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). This is a very important opportunity for all stakeholders from national administrations, international and non-governmental organizations, fishers’ communities, the scientific world and civil society to discuss about common strategies that could secure the social, economic and environmental conditions for sustainable small-scale fisheries in the region.