The Technical guidelines for scientific surveys in the Mediterranean and Black Sea have been produced as an e-book. Different e-book versions are now available on Apple, Amazon, Google Books  and Smashwords and readers can download these device-friendly electronic versions of the...

In an effort to assist countries in identifying best practices to address and mitigate the impacts of COVID-19, more than 800 experts from 67 countries joined 32 panellists to discuss how best to improve the resilience and sustainability of the...

The Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are negotiating the text of a new 10-year working framework for biodiversity conservation, as a stepping stone towards the 2050 vision of "living in harmony with nature". This framework, known as the...

Since early March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted business as usual around the world with severe consequences affecting most industries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region, not least of which, the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. Two months after the...

The GFCM has been holding, jointly with the FAO EastMed regional project, a series of online workshops to advance towards the benchmark assessment of round sardinella in the Eastern Mediterranean. At the request of experts in the field, these workshops...