Over the past year, the GFCM-Lex project has taken great strides towards setting up a region-wide legal framework for the conservation of Mediterranean living marine resources and ecosystems. As fisheries laws vary greatly among the region’s 21 countries, this project...

  Co-organized by the GFCM and the Regional Coordination Group for the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, in the context of the Medbycatch Project and the EU Data Collection Framework. Background: The incidental catch of vulnerable species in fisheries (or bycatch) represents...

Fisheries in the western Mediterranean account for 22 percent of total landings in the GFCM area of application and have a substantial socio-economic impact on coastal communities in the subregion. To understand if these crucial fish stocks are sustainably exploited, stock assessments are conducted each year, forming the basis of scientific advice produced by the GFCM.  Since 2016, the...

The GFCM is pleased to announce an online course on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the establishment of Allocated Zones for Aquaculture (AZA) on 6-7 December 2021. Following MODULE 1 on spatial information and representation conducted in 2020, MODULE 2 will cover planning for sustainable aquaculture development....

As we are celebrating #WorldFisheriesDay today, the GFCM would like you to meet some of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea fishers and fish workers involved in making small-scale fisheries more sustainable.  It really is hard to overstate the importance of...