General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean - GFCM

GFCM News

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...
The GFCM is teaming with scientific partners and focal points from nine countries to launch the first research programme on European eel in the Mediterranean Sea towards coordination of stock management and recovery. The European eel was classified as critically endangered...
In the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of the fisheries and aquaculture sector but also its strengths. On World Ocean Day, we are happy to invite you to join the GFCM, together with...